The Case Against Web Apps

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 29, 2009 @08:32AM from the only-as-strong-as-its-weakest-data-link dept.

snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister offers five reasons why companies should re-consider concentrating their development efforts on browser-based apps. As McAllister sees it, Web apps encourage a thin-client approach to development that concentrates far too much workload in the datacenter. And while UI and tool limitations are well known, the Web as 'hostile territory' for independent developers is a possibility not yet fully understood. Sure, Web development is fast, versatile, and relatively inexpensive, but long term, the browser's weaknesses might just outweigh its strengths as an app delivery platform."

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Re:Why is it worth their time? by Hognoxious · 2009-01-29 10:55 · Score: 1, Troll

it should just work on any browser that does a good job with standard HTML.
I hear GNU/Hurd will be bundled with one.

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Re:No Shit. by Martian_Kyo · 2009-01-29 21:13 · Score: 0, Troll

And since it's java it will be painfully slow and resource consuming,
but stable i suppose.
Back to the original discussion web apps are better as far as distribution is concerned, once you distribute a web app to servers you KNOW everyone is using the new version and not some old version with a potential bug or exploit.
Then again, web apps are easier to exploit, it's amazing what you can do with http headers.