D Web Services Application Potential?

Etienne via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Jul 29 18:42:00 PDT 2015


On Thursday, 30 July 2015 at 00:08:52 UTC, Brandon Ragland wrote:
> A downloaded plugin, would be a man-in-the-middle solution. 
> Users get there "google search away" and developers get the 
> necessary native speed, flexibility, and components necessary 
> to perform better work.
>
> The browser is a stellar user-interface engine. Certainly 
> better than GTK+ or MFC by a long shot. I just don't think the 
> browser is a useful *operating system* for all these "web apps" 
> that should be native.

There's been lots of improvements in the DOM, those slick CSS3 
transitions are actually hardware accelerated with OpenGL, lots 
of GUI front-ends don't event have transitions in the first 
place. I wouldn't rely on Javascript for crunching data though, 
the "slowness" you talk about? Mostly stems from that. Otherwise, 
for display, it certainly is a great tool with lots of open 
source components.

Just look at this data table with 640k rows: 
http://ui-grid.info/docs/#/tutorial/404_large_data_sets_and_performance

THAT is some good javascript, and it certainly beats what I've 
seen Excel do with sheets harboring 10x less data.

While some are still blaming the hammer, I blame the person 
trying to hit the nail on the head with his eyes closed.


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