Analyst claims power business users disappointed with AJAX apps
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#2Actually, I think the research shows power users are still dissatisfied with enterprise software, regardless of how much "web 2.0" it contains.
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#3Do you think it's possible for Java applets to make a comeback, or has that ship sailed for good?
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#4Do you think it's possible for Java applets to make a comeback, or has that ship sailed for good?
Java applets? Yeesh! I hope not.
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#5I'm personally using flex for my current app. I don't recommend it for every app, but for what I am doing it makes perfect sense. It makes doing a lot of things that would be difficult in AJAX extremely easy. But like I said, not for everyone.
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#6It goes on to recommend AIR and Silverlight. I hope my competitors are big believers in Forrester's research.
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#7There's a quality to super-heavy ajax webapps - they reach the uncanny valley of similarity to desktop apps.
Just like an animated human starts to look really creepy as it approaches realism, there's something strange about web-apps that approach the style and complexity of desktop apps but don't quite reach it.
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#8Here's the issue with these kinds of studies: They take examples of building apps using build 0 of a toolkit or technology, then by the time the study comes out, that same toolkit or technology is on build 100.
The usability of web apps (specifically speed) is improving faster than we can develop our non-trivial apps for this platform. In short: time your version 1.0 with the assumed capability of the host platform at the time of release, plus two years. If you commit to spend a year on AIR development, because ajax or js execution or whatever is not where it should be right now, you're making a mistake.
That's what's bad about pre-obsolescent technologies like AIR - they distract from the future in favor of right now.
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#9Do you think it's possible for Java applets to make a comeback, or has that ship sailed for good?
I'm not sure about applets, but full Java applications deployed through Java Web Start have been a win for us.
Re: Analyst claims power business users disappointed with AJAX apps
#10Do you think it's possible for Java applets to make a comeback, or has that ship sailed for good?
Dead as a dodo