>>>What do you use for Web app development? Can heavy duty heads down data entry web apps be developed with today's technologies?
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>>I mostly use ASP.NET MVC...
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>>It's possible to build heavy duty data entry apps, but it's not easy. Input controls in HTML are still somewhat sub-optimal depending on what you need.
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>>+++ Rick ---
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>Thanks Rick

"Sub-optimal" is as good as any way to put it.

Some thirty or so years ago I read a research paper that pointed out the tremendous increase on productivity achieved when terminal response times were "sub-second", as they phrased it. That was in the day of dumb terminals hooked to mainframes with a serial connection, kind of like browsers, just dumber. Thirty years later browsers with an internet connection generally fail the sub-second test and aside from HTML input controls, that pale in contrast to desktop controls, the thousands of miles long connection is just too slow and inconsistent. I have faith the internet will eventually overcome most of these problems, probably in my lifetime.