Re: Usability tell

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gary,

If you compare the size of the one requisite browser with all of the 
thick-client apps totalled up, I think you'll see that the size of the 
browser is pretty thin, after all.

However, this is a completely moot point. Everyone has a browser (if not 
multiple browsers) on their PC or other device already.  So the size of 
the browser is really a non-issue, since it's going to be there anyway.

Also, when you update applications that run in a browser, you don't have 
to update them on each PC.  Not sure if you've ever written applications 
that run on PCs, and had to update every PC each time there was a 
change, and had to worry about some being out of date for a while until 
updates were applied, and all of the other complications of thick-client 
software, but I have...   it's not fun.  And is not an issue with 
browser-based software.




On 1/23/2014 2:05 PM, Monnier, Gary wrote:
> Here's some fuel for the fire...
>
> A colleague at another company once said "If you think a Browser is
> a
thin client, think again. If you don't believe me just look at the size
of a web browser. You'll see it is pretty thick!"
>