My critical view on today’s web client utilization

Using web clients (aka thin clients) comes with a lot of advantages. It’s cool, it’s deployable, it does juts depend on the web browser, not on the underlying operating system, and and and… There are a couple of other reasons why web applications are state of the art for many stake holders in today’s user interface development. I do support this; but not for all use cases. It’s for sure, e-commerce web sites have no other choice and this is cool and okay.But I would like to remind all the excited folks that web applications using a simple paradigm: web browser, DHTML (HTML, JavaScript) via HTTP and web server. The bottleneck from the technical perspective is HTML. HTML is basically a markup language for text, not for interaction and gimmicks. As a result, today’s web applications using frameworks based on script languages to recreate user interface behavior. The results are complex, hard to maintain and often not stable. And, I do believe that big player in this game are doing research for new concepts; especially regarding the logic on the client (which is basically JavaScript these days).