Re: GUI development language

["Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/30/07, albartell <albartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You danced around the base of my question.  Have you ever used a well
> written browser app, private or public, that was better than a well written
> thick client app?

broaden your requirements. in addition to well written, what about
value adding functionality?

I have a user that wants a display where they can drill down to an
item number and have the on hand, in transit, in production, and
forecasted demand of the item displayed to them.  then show this
information for all the items of a product category in a grid, with
the option to print it or download in xml form.  It would be nice if
the user could right click a cell and popup a context menu with all
sorts of usefull options.  But 90% of the requirement is to have
access to the needed data. With asp.net and odbc you could have an
as400 appl that gives the users what they need coded and deployed very
quickly.  And it could be written by someone with no knowledge of the
as400 platform.

-Steve