RE: UKNM: Needle in a haystack?

[Tomski]

>I'd like to also back this up from my personal experience. Trying to use a

>browser as a user interface for anything other than what it's designed

for -

>hypertext browsing - sucks. Don't do it.


aw piers, you're just scarred by a *really* nasty experience with a

browser-based tool - that nightmare doesn't mean that browser-based tools

are all useless (and trust me, I saw the aberration I suspect you're

referring to above, and it stunk).


for a distributed content management (where people inputting/managing

various sites are in many different locations, continents even), building

your main editor/producer UI in a browser really is the only scalable

solution, and if your UI and workflow thinking is clear, then it's not

impossible.


we've made darn sure we went for browser-based tools to manage a growing

network of 10 multilingual local sites in places as far apart as norway,

chile and new zealand. what is the poor editor in santiogo going to do when

his bespoke application goes wrong? wait for someone to fly over and

re-install?


hell, capital interactive were managing a network of 8 sites from a

browser-based content management system back in early 1997. i turned all

capital's homepages pages black when diana died - sitting in my underwear

at home using my browser.


what are online banking / share dealing / shopping if not complex browser

based tools? they're darn hard to develop, but worth it, cos the platform

is ubiquitous.


but software development in a browser? nahhh....


-Tom



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