Re: The "Presentation" Layer

[john e <jacobus1968@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Perhaps. But I've said it before, of the things you'd want in a business
> application* there is very little you can do on a desktop that you
> cannot do in web land. The two biggies that come to mind are drag/drop
> and right-click both of which are supported on the web.


I don't mean drag/drop and right-click, i mean things like good keyboard processing, like type ahead.
Business apps are keyboard centric, not mouse centric. The browser is not made for this.
Buf of course, everything is possible. 

> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:27:07 -0400
> From: WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [WEB400] The "Presentation" Layer
>
> > full-blown application with all the features of a GUI
> > which we are accustomed to having on the desktop
>
> Perhaps. But I've said it before, of the things you'd want in a business
> application* there is very little you can do on a desktop that you
> cannot do in web land. The two biggies that come to mind are drag/drop
> and right-click both of which are supported on the web.
>
> -Walden
>
> * "Business Application" as opposed to CAD/PhotoShop/Halo3.
>
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