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Will AJAX Threaten Windows Desktop?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thin-clients-strike-back dept.

prostoalex writes "They are not your father's HTML pages anymore. AJAX interfaces are getting more complex and versatile, relieving the user of the necessity to reload the page, and thus are becoming more like your average desktop apps. The catch? AJAX apps work in any browser out there, making the OS layer a bit irrelevant. Will the trend threaten Microsoft desktop near-monopoly? Or are we hearing the story of poorly debugged device drivers again?"

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  1. Re:No. by Pete · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Even the database stuff is an order of magnitude more difficult to implement on the web than on the desktop.

    It is? Um... that's kind of a vague statement at best...

    but with AJAX it takes your programmers ten times as long to do as it does in Java or VB or C# or whatever. So you can use a web app, but at ten times the cost.

    Well, what a relief. People seem to find it difficult enough to accurately measure productivity between different programming languages when building the same kind of applications... but thankfully ednopantz is ready to stake his reputation on a nice round number - a number with a zero on the end, even!

    There you go, webdevelopers! Whatever you try to develop as a desktop application, it'll take ten times longer if you try to do a functionally similar thing as a web application. Yep. Ten times longer. That's right.

    How'd I find that out, you ask? Did I conduct an extensive (and expensive) series of tests with a variety of different projects and teams? No! What a silly idea! I just read a comment on slashdot by this guy "ednopantz". And I'm sure he's done an extensive series of tests to back up his statement, otherwise he'd just be pulling numbers out of his arse - and surely no slashdot user would disgrace themselves by doing that!

    ...So anyway... what do you mean, you want something vaguely credible? Look at the guy's name! ednopantz! How could you not take that seriously!?!?!

    *ahem* :-)