Coding Horror: Are Web Interfaces "Good Enough"? — OZONE Asylum, home of the Mad Scientists

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[url=http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/]Coding Horror[/url]: [url=http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000807.html]Are Web Interfaces "Good Enough"?[/url] I recently posted a thread from the CodingHorror blog about lowering your bandwidth usage. Here, Jeff Atwood explores the creation of web interfaces and whether they are good enough to carry full applications. We are all familiar with Google's recent webapp successess and he explores uTorrent's web interface. He also points out something that I think would be eye-opening to the Asylum, "Eckel sees a world of JavaScript and DHTML that's inappropriate for large applications. I see a world of large applications that are inappropriate for most users. It's high time we scaled down and scaled back." Also, I think this is pretty deep: "Online applications may be awkward, but they do one key thing that local applications can never do: embed snippets of live content in a web page." Have anyone made a webapp here that was successful? Are the UIs comparable in any way to production apps? Loading...
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