If you have never done Windows development, you may not have had these
experiences (yeah, right . . . if you believe it only happens on Windows, then I??™ve got a big hunk
of cheese to sell you . . . it??™s on display every evening, just look up in the sky and check it out).
You will have to take my word for it when I say that such situations were, for a long time,
much more common than any of us would have liked. With a web-based application, this is
generally not a concern. Ensure the PC has the correct browser and version, and off you go
98 percent of the time.
Figure 1-10.We??™ve all been there: live demos and engineers do not mix!
The other major benefit of a webapp is distribution. No longer do you need a 3-month
shakedown period to ensure your new application does not conflict with the existing suite of
corporate applications. An app running in a web browser, security issues aside, will not affect,
or be affected by, any other application on the PC (and I am sure we all have war stories about
exceptions to that, but they are just that: exceptions!).
Of course, you probably knew those benefits already, or you probably wouldn??™t be interested
in web development in the first place, so we won??™t spend any more time on this.
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