[CS-FSLUG] Church Management Software

[Josiah Ritchie]

2008/4/9 Stephen J. McCracken <smccracken at hcjb.org.ec>:
> Greg Slade wrote:
>
> >
> > > What do you guys think about using XHTML and AJAX for the UI? It
> > > lends it self to being usable outside of the intranet or machine?
> Though, for that usage, we must address security.
> > >
> >
> > Since there are already a number of players in the web-hosted church
> > management space, and none (that I know of) in the Linux desktop space,
> > I would see this as reinventing the wheel.
> >
>
>  Really I would steer away from a browser interface for such an app. While a
> browser interface makes things easily and almost universally accessible, I
> have to ask if that is a requirement for this app.  One reason is that so
> much functionality is lost in not having mouse right click accessibility.
>
>  We were burned by this when many people were used to Outlook, Outlook
> Express, and Thunderbird and switched most of them to a browser based email
> interface that *looked* similar, but couldn't act similarly because of the
> loss of drag/drop and right click menus.

That's an interesting case study. Do you think this would have caused
similar riots if it didn't look so similar to what they were used to,
say Gmail for example?

JSR/

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