True. It has gotten a lot better.

But you do have the problem that HTML in essence is a very limited UI technology. A dormant one on top of it. Nothing new happens in HTML. Of course, AJAX is squeezing the heck out of it, but still, you could have done everything 10 years ago. At least now one is more productive building this sort of stuff (which admittedly is a huge issue).

A next-generation UI HTML ain't, no matter how you look at it...

Markus



>I wonder what will be your choice when converting VFP app to .NET: Windows or Web Forms?
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>Dmitry...
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>Until last year, I avoided WebForms unless I HAD TO. However, between the capabilities of Atlas/Ajax, and the functionality of ASP.NET 2.0, and the capabilities of third-party controls like Infragistics and Telerik, I've had a change of heart.
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>While I still believe that Winforms is a better choice for "internal" applications where you can dictate that the .NET framework is installed on each user's machine....I believe the Webform development platform has gotten much better. Back in 2001, I was constantly using the famous MSDN article, "Death of the browser" as reason to do virtually everything in winforms. Suffice it to say, I haven't used that argument in a while.
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>Often times, the requirements of the application will dictate platform.
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>Kevin