Are your applications enterprise enough ?
If you create an application that runs in a browser (only one browser) using ActiveX (the same framework that makes the 'Average Joe's PC' vulnerable to worms and viruses) and uses an authentication scheme that works for a particular OS you need to rethink if you needed a desktop application instead.
I believe this is not 'enterprise enough' (if these buzzwords have any worth whatsoever)
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I guess with Flash being available on most platforms
I guess with Flash being available on most browsers+platform combinations it is no longer tying the application to one world.
FireFox ? Eclipse's help viewer ?
Hi Tarun:
I've been thinking along similar lines for a long time, and intend to investigate FireFox for a true embedded browser, and Eclipse's help viewer displaying simple HTML stuff.
-- Sriram
sriram@objectedge.com
How about Mozilla, Konquerer, Galeon , Safari
My advice for cross platform browser independent enterprise software wouldn't be to choose a lower base level for browsers.
However it does include the following ideas
1. Avoid browser specific client side scripting
2. Don't 'invoke'/'install' ActiveX components, incase there is very badly needed UI representation use Java Applet (though in general its a good security practice not to let your client side do much)
3. Do not design sites for a particular resolution i.e. don't choose for your client.
4. Don't use flash or java applets unless there is a specific requirement which can't be fulfilled without flash. Many client browsers don't support flash and java applets.
IMO, Firefox might be a good baseline.
Browser Independent Development
I was wondering if there is a more comprhensive list of best practices for producing browser independent web applications?
Also - if a developer sticks to W3C DOM - will his/her applications be browser independent?
Browser Independent Applications
I was wondering if there are more specific and complete list for browser independent development best practices. I am also wondering if a developer sticks to W3C DOM - will the application be portable (cross platform application).
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