How Do You Do Business Apps? (Morphic Design Philosophy)

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at disney.com
Mon Feb 28 21:30:22 UTC 2000


Dan --

There will be some interesting examples not too many weeks from now ...

Cheers,

Alan

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At 8:10 AM -0800 2/28/00, Dan Shafer wrote:
>As I travel around speaking at and attending conferences and listening to
>developers, I'm finding that more and more of them are in fact using Web
>browsers as the UI to their apps. There is, of course, a great deal of
>merit to this approach, though it is not without its own problems,
>principally related to how to achieve anything like a fluid interface in
>the browser given its inherently static nature. DHTML is poorly supported
>cross-browser and Java on the client has no credibility.
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>So how do we do Squeak "applets" that allow us to extend the browser UI in
>some interesting and meaningful ways without getting into
>platform-specific look-and-feel issues? I'm just starting to dig deeply
>into Squeak, have become something of an addict, but haven't yet
>encountered the answer to that question.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From:    Peter Crowther Peter.Crowther at IT-IQ.com
>Sent:    Mon, 28 Feb 2000 12:12:22 -0000
>To:      squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
>Subject: RE: How Do You Do Business Apps? (Morphic Design Philosophy)
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>> Just as a side comment, I'd like to point out that it is very easy to
>> provide a "business" user interface with a web browser.
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>Absolutely.  And it's cross-platform on the client.  I'm no longer
>developing any standard Win32 applications within our organisation; it's all
>browser.
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