A Technology Summary of the first half of 2005
What things have I learned from a technology point of view so far this year?
- Moving everything to a web application is possible, but creates potentially expensive challenges for the unexpereinced.
- Moving to a pure HTML / DHTML provides a broad flexible potential audience of users, but is very expensive if you must provide similar usability of a legacy stateful application.
- Providing a web page with thousands of editable controls is not inherently usable, but if you "have to" do it you may consider this to speed it up: