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Docker.com useful or not with VFP?
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From
31/05/2015 00:51:44
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
 
 
To
30/05/2015 06:06:04
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows 8.1
Network:
Windows NT
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Application:
Desktop
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01619801
Message ID:
01620400
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93
Thierry,

Gartner started saying in 2013 that 50% of apps will be hybrid by 2016- meaning using HTML for display as part of the app, which won't be in a browser. Then at the end of last year, Forrester agreed with you, saying that web on devices will take over from native the same way it did on Windows. ( https://www.forrester.com/Web+Hybrid+And+Native+Mobile+Apps+All+Have+Their+Place/fulltext/-/E-RES61154 ) But just a few months later, observers now say that the native vs HTML battle is irrelevant on devices because most business apps already are hybrid.

Have you checked out Lianja? GUI in HTML5/CSS, language-agnostic interpreter behind the scenes. Seems to me this model is the likely future: separate out the GUI and a cross-platform behind-the-scenes interpreter is easy enough. Look at the complaints about old cross-platform FP and it usually boiled down to GUI glitches.

Meanwhile Google is coming up with new tech like Soli and Jacquard that customers will expect to experience even if their browser is old. IMHO ports of Windows apps are a 2015 phenomenon as customers start to look for the clever features that made them choose their device...
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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