[LINK] RFC: Web 2.0

[Linda Rouse]

In reply
>Linda wrote:
>
>>  Fred - you may well be right :-)
>
>Whoops - I sent my previous e-mail before I saw this. Feel free to ignore. ;-)
>
>Fred

I would like to know more too Fred as I am supposed to be able to 
explain this to our users..
- so I take your previous email on board that says:

>It seems to me that I could knock up something that looks like the 
>web 2 example using current >(ostensibly web 1) tools. Can you 
>explain what's different, in the examples you linked, to a >simple 
>redesign of the interface; what specific elements of web 2, that 
>aren't available to me >using web 1 technology, allow it to look 
>like the locally-installed application?

>Do web 2 sites require different hardware? Different software? At 
>the server end? At the client >end? Does it use different protocols? 
>Are there incompatibilities? Can I use web 1 and web 2 at >the same 
>time? On the same computer? On the same network?

para 1. the new interface uses jspx technology - "extended" java 
servlets that are dynamic rather than static HTML - but otherwise it 
is probably coded as a redesign of the interface to look like the 
native application

para 2 No different hardware required or software for the end user... 
the server has to have Tomcat and Java classes installed for both 
interfaces.
I dont think there are different protocols...
I understand that you can have both interfaces though perhaps not at 
the same time! Certainly both may be installed (we ship both with the 
application) and then the user can choose one or the other. Each has 
separate license registration keys so they are treated differently..

The main user differences are things like:
1. context sensitive popups ie when you rightclick you get an 
application menu popup rather than the browser popup
2. If you select an item to view, only that item refreshes rather 
than the whole screen - this is a "big thing' apparently as it does 
speed up use.
3. You can tag items to rate them according to a predefined list; you 
can 'split' the screen to show related items in a second window...

generally though, the main advantage is thought to be (for this 
particular application) that everyone has the same interface and the 
same degree of functionality regardless of how they access, whether 
on the office desktop or remotely via a web client.

past that, Im in the dark!

regards
Linda
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