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.

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)


> 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.

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.

		- Peter




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