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05/04/2017 15:27:07
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Catégorie:
Contrats & ententes
Titre:
Versions des environnements
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows 10
Network:
Novell 6.x
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Application:
Desktop
Divers
Thread ID:
01649781
Message ID:
01649818
Vues:
118
>>OS are no longer in the battlefield

So how come Android's winning? ;-)

I keep telling people to look at the huge companies who made their fortunes via the browser. Amazon, Priceline, eBay spring to mind. Having succeeded hugely on the desktop browser, in the mobile device age every single one of them now encourages users to install an app to improve user experience.

Certainly I agree that browser apps come close and are preferable to writing for multiple platforms- and your product is fantastic in encapsulating lots of complexity and allowing cross-platform continued use of valuable development. But in 2015 we had to abandon a web app that could not mimic the multi-form customizable GUI of one of our old Windows apps. The issue was that only IE still allowed browser windows to communicate in the way we needed and MS might decide it's a hack attack vector and close it at any moment, leaving customers with an unusable irreparable product. I realize this is anecdote, but it's important that browsers keep changing (breaking) things while OS have to maintain backward compatibility.
"... 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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