Joe Stegman - Why can't we move all APIs into the browser?

rasx wrote:The web is taking over all applications that can be designed with a simple, input-postback state machine. As of this writing, web applications cannot maintain complex state---and I say this in view of the Outlook 2003 Web Client and the tangled conceptual mess that is SharePoint Portal Server.
The web application begins to fail when it begins to feel like a time-consuming, sequential "wizard" (which happens quite a bit in SharePoint interfaces). The rich client is clearly superior where the web application begins to fail.
But history teaches us that organizations can cheat and lower the bar of what a professional, enterprise application is and when this happens the web will take "all" application development.
Keskos wrote:So web interfaces might be in fact superior because of their simplicity and sequential wizard style.
raptor3676 wrote:By the way Keskos, there is no reason for a WinForms application not to be sequential-wizard like (in fact wizards first appears on the desktop world).