From: Aaron Bartell
HTML will forever be a moving target ...
Would you consider DDS a moving target?
I don't see HTML as much more of a moving target than DDS. That's one reason I've chosen HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to build a UI for business applications. It's ubiquitous, backed by standards, and can be home-grown, which offers the most control.
But I kind-of get your drift. You seem to be generalizing, and stirring the pot.
You can design your own UI using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. Or you can go with any number of rich UI tool-kits, each of which offers their own component palette; all of which could be moving targets. Or you could go with a tool that generates a rich UI from its own component palette and templates. Or the browser could be used for little more than instantiating applets, Flash, or Silverlight runtimes, where the UI would be defined by those respective technologies.
I'm aware that a number of prominent UI frameworks are being paired with prominent server technologies, and that big players are working to control this space.
Fortunately, I'm past that, and not overly concerned about the multitude of UI technologies that one can chose from.
My focus is application development. I don't envy you having to chose a UI technology.
Of course it's best if ones application design offers enough separation between UI and other logic, that change is less traumatic ;-)
Nathan.
midrange.com
