Re: Morfik lowered their price

Hi,

What I think that everyone may have overlooked is markets.

Which markets exists? Well a couple of them are:

A) Intranet portals
B) Generic internet web sites
C) Vertical applications

For A and C, the user is typically a user with a specific functionality
requirement, and most often a user that is member of the
company/organization that provides the web site.

For B, the user can be anyone.

When one have figured out which market ones website targets, then its much
easier to choose what to use to make it (non exclusive list):

1) PHP based CMS systems
2) .Net based CMS systems
3) Static web page generators.
4) Morfik

Its pretty obvious that most generic internet web (cat. B) sites run on
Linux platforms, and for most of them option 1 or 3 is the best choise. For
some of them option 2 may also be fine.

However for category A and C, method 4 (Morfik et al that require
Javascript) often is the best choise.

best regards
Kim Madsen
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"David Ridgway" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Seems to me $995 is a reasonable price point. This is where they should
have been from the start.

http://www.morfik.com/

One major problem still exists however.... turn off JavaScript in your
browser and try to load the site. Blank page....

I don't know if this holds true for the apps that Morfik creates, but if
even the web site does not work without JS enabled, that is pretty bad.
Not least of all from an SEO point of view - since to Google,
www.morfik.com is now an empty site (in fact, Google only shows 4 pages on
morfik.com to be indexed, and 3 of them are old and no longer exist).

In some cases it's not unreasonable to have a web app that requires JS -
for example, on a company intranet, a content management system etc.
However I think on *any* application and particularly web site that is
'front facing' (that is, to the general public), requiring JS is
unacceptable.

That's the problem with AJAX... it is a great technology don't get me
wrong, but too many people get caught up with the pretty effects and don't
think of the possible problems with it (accessibility, mobile browsers,
older browsers, high security policies etc).

Cheers,

Dave



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