From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2008-05-01T03:01:27+09:00
Subject: Re: What are the weaknesses in Ruby?

On 30 Apr 2008, at 17:27, Phillip Gawlowski wrote:
> The web is only good at, in its current form, for CRUD.
>
> And that doesn't even touch on the issue of graceful downgrading.
>
> Silverlight/Moonlight or Flash would make that possible. But those are
> much more virtual machines like the JRE or .NET (especially
> Silverlight), than than a HTML rendering engine.

Much of the problem is that a Web Browser is not suited to being an  
application platform, even though the major browsers have grown into  
such. Beyond a certain level of application complexity a choice has to  
be made between a hardline REST approach with minimal markup and  
styling, or a lightweight client delivered as Flash, Silverlight of  
Java Applet content inside a browser page. Both approaches have their  
problems and for many kinds of applications such as casual games I can  
see an argument for developing dedicated clients and ignoring the  
browser altogether.


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
http://slides.games-with-brains.net
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