>The only advantage that NSCP has is Unix compatibility>
Yea, and the only advantage the Internet has is omnipresence.
Like I'm going to go research Visual Basic for Applications before I respond! What do you think? That I take this seriously? ;)
Actually, I've written Access Basic Apps, and played with VB. It is impressive for a MSFT Windows environment, has been for years. My take is that VBA is a Windows IDE (integrated development environment), but if yoiu want to call it a Windows platform, ok... I guess...
To me, a platform is like a paradigm.
The NGUI platform is a paradigm.
Shift happens. :)
I've visited your site recently. I have it bookmarked, but wjen I get there I can't find the forest for the trees. Sorry, it's a backhanded compliment. :) You've got so much junk, err, stuff on your site. I get scatter brained when confronted with it all. Pretty cool, though.
I'll take your word that your site works better with IE. You're probably smart to hitch your wagon too MSFT's technology, but the gains you refer to seem like just bells and whistles to me.
In my business, (developing embedded software, data comm & distributed apps) I find that a lot of the most brilliant, forward thinking researchers and innovators are Unix oriented. Meaning that all the ActiveX and MS Windows goodies you're alluding to, are unnecesary and pretty much ignored, kind of like the sound of a tree falling in the forest when nobody's there.
BTW, Acrobat & PDF seem to go together like hand and glove on Unix and MS Windows NGUIs. PDF is embraced by serious researchers as a publishing format.
I personally think MSFT is chasing their tail with their ActiveX and MS Windows specific internet stuff. I avoid it like noise in a music hall, but time will tell. I'm not saying MSFT won't make money with it. They probably will. I just don't need it. Not yet anyway.
...jm #:o) |
