Re: Apps for rollout in 2005: .net or win32

From: Mark Van Ditta (nospam_at_nospam.wanted.here.org)
Date: 01/15/04 

Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 08:43:00 -0500

"Lauchlan M" <LMackinnon@NOSPAMHotmail.com> wrote in message
news:4005d672@newsgroups.borland.com...
> > IMHO, HTML-based clients are a lousy choice for fully-distributed
> > applications that need to print WYSIWYG forms on local printers.
>
> Well there you go. I think completely the opposite.
>
> I find it easier to create a report in HTML using (say) Cold Fusion than
to
> use a product such as Report Builder. The primary reason is that CF
> dynamically creates the page as you need it whereas in RB you need to do
the
> layout, write the handlers and the layout is not dynamic.
>
> On the client side, the HTML dynamically adjusts to the page width or, if
> you prefer, you put it in a table of a certain width. I tend to find HTML
> tends to print quite well, except I guess you can't define page breaks for
> printing. I guess it doesn't provide absolute precision for how things
will
> be printed and if this is a requirement then you need to look at other
> options as you have, but I think a web app would be good for many
> applications.
>

Apples and oranges! What I am talking about is local form, not report
printing. For example, my end users print invoices that have to look like
a professionally printed form. In this application, HTML's device
independence is a weakness, not a strength.

Additionally, there are numerous security-related problems with
browser-based applications. For starters, we have the cross-site scripting
demon (this security hole is eventually going to render scripting on the
client useless because people, like myself, will just disable it to prevent
this type of exploit). If that was not enough to set one's hair on fire,
we also have to worry about page replay, SQL injection, end-user page
modification (e.g., one an end-user modifies hidden values such as prices
for shopping cart items in a page and then resubmits it) et. al.

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