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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">El 20/07/2016 a las 13:22, Graeme
Geldenhuys escribió:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On 2016-07-20 11:45, Santiago A. wrote:
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<pre wrap="">web is not the best GUI, (in fact, I hate it) but it's ubiquitous.
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+1
Web interfaces tend to be slow too, but I have recently seen some pretty
amazing "web applications".</pre>
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The problem is no aesthetic but of design and productivity.<br>
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HTML was designed to display documents and close connection, thus it
has no concept of session, the session ends when you display the
page and close connection. Cookies came to keep some data from
session to session. Later came websockets etc. All are dirty patches
to convert the initial design as displayer into a GUI. You started
with bicycle, you added an engine, later four wheels, later a
chassis, and now you have a car.<br>
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Xwindows is too low level, no widget.... VNC is no really a remote
GUI (the server admits just one connection), Microsoft remote
desktop is a good solution, but it's tied to windows. The monster
ERP SAP has it's own <a
href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP_GUI">GUI</a>, that is the
way. <br>
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The world needs really bad a standard remote GUI protocol that can
run on any graphic/OS. There have been some tries: XUL, <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresco_%28windowing_system%29">Fresco</a>,
and others I've never heard about. <br>
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Regards,
Graeme
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Saludos
Santi
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:svaa@ciberpiula.net">svaa@ciberpiula.net</a></pre>
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