On Sunday 15 October 2006 16:45, Philip Tellis wrote:
If you want to write a web app, you MUST learn HTML and Javascript. Avoiding that is going to make your web app unusable for a large section of users.
So lets see, if I am a project manager and I want to make an app, what do I do?
1. Get people to learn JS / HTML and XHTML and all possible w3 standards. 2. Get people to build an extensive infrastructure like GWT. 3. Make a Java / Python / Perl / C / <insert your favorite language here> to JS/HTML compiler. 4. Tweak it until it generates perfect output for all browsers ( including Lynx and what not ) 5. Then start with actually building the app that I had in mind.
or do i do away with the first 4 steps and start with the last one directly? Yes I would do exactly that.
What is the need for the app to work in Lynx? People want to do some serious work so they give a damn about whether your code generates 100% standards compliant HTML / JS.
IMHO, it is not feasible for any project to survive or get completed if you're going start by getting together a bunch of programmers who start developing the app by learning JS/HTML/XHTML. Unless you have JS / HTML experts, you'll have them pulling out their hair in no time while trying to get code that works well with all possible browsers out there. I thought our main goal was to produce a working app rather than making people bald :P
This is all subject to using Java / GWT. If these tools aren't going to be used then the whole discussion is irrelevant.
Does anybody have better alternatives? I am not so much for the console apps. They are fast and very productive yet its difficult to get people to adopt them.
BTW How is Tally's interface? I've never tried it myself. Is it console based?