From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2002-02-18T18:51:35+09:00
Subject: RE: The GUI Returns

Horacio Lopez wrote:
> Unfortunately, the gap between network bandwidth for
> www apps and a local GUI bandwidth is *HUGE* and
> that makes our web interfaces to suck when compared
> to local GUIs.
> 
> At some point, you must draw a line, and define if you are
> creating a "website"  or you are creating a "web-based application".
> Complex GUIs are hard to develop on top of stateless http.
> GUI event routing,  concurrent sessions, remote data cacheing, etc.
> It all sums up and it becomes an awful lot of work, not that
> I am afraid of it, but it takes an awful lot of manpower.
> 
> From that point of view, I think Locana can be interesting,
> but if you see it from the other side, the side of goodlooking
> and highly integrated GUI applications, there's still a *very*
> long road to walk.

Very well (and succinctly) said!

Curt