RE: [slightly OT] Web Applications

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There's not much to add to what Anders and Dan replied already.
My feeling is however that there is a question behind your client's question.
Whenever you go into a discussion with a client you will always loose it.
Even if you 'win' the debate. (you might loose the customer).
My idea is that it is better to avoid such conversations and go after the
real intention of what your client wants. Maybe there is an opportunity for
new moneymaking business (and that is what I sense here).

"Villi Bernaroli" wrote:

> We (a small italian based software house) are developing VFP
> WebServices (WS) since 2002, and these WS are then called by our
> applications via the internet. These applications have a rich
> client, which is a VFP-built user interface, and not a browser
> interface.
> One of our customers told us recently that our applications are
> NOT Web Applications since the interface doesn't run in the
> browser. So I googled around for a definition of Web Application
> and what I found is really disturbing: it seems that almost any
> definition of Web Application specifies the browser interface as
> a requirement.
> Until today I always believed that an application, to be called a
> Web Application, had only to be capable of functioning through
> the internet, and the thin client was just a choice, not a
> requirement.
> Who's right? My customer?
> --
> The answer to the ethernal question is:
> put a read events after the launch of the form
>
>
>
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