[Lazarus] The future of desktop

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 30 Nov 2013, Martin Schreiber wrote:

> On Saturday 30 November 2013 13:38:58 Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> On Fri, 29 Nov 2013, Marcos Douglas wrote:
>>
>> Extpascal does wat mseide does. Transport everything back to the server.
>
> That is not quite right. MSEifi does not transport everything back to the
> server. It transports only what is defined in the client form- and
> datamodule-resources as "interesting for server". Most of the actions (for
> example show dropdown lists, scroll and sort datasets) is done client side
> without server interaction.
> Programming the whole application in Javascript and running in browser surely
> is an option, but why use Free Pascal for that purpose?

Easy:
Because of all the advantages that Pascal has over the mess that Javascript is.

The inventors of Javascript should be publicly flogged on the town square.
You can choose any town you like. The bigger, the better ;)

Michael.