[CS-FSLUG] Church Management Software

[EnzoAeneas]

well on the web app side, right-click functionality can be masde
available, but that is neither here nor there.

What I was aiming at (and I'm sorry because I was ambiguous in later
explanations) was like the applications listed at these pages:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mozilla-based.html
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XULRunner_Hall_of_Fame
http://mozpad.org/doku.php?id=map_of_the_mozpad_universe

Many of these are simply try to mash Internet content with a local UI,
others try to serve Internet content in a different way or enhance the
experience, but others still simply use the Mozilla Gecko platform for
building applications that run locally. Right-click, shortcuts,
keyboard navigation, the whole shebang. Plus the initrinsic ability to
use technology such as SVG for graphics, javascript for rapid
protoyping of event handlers, XML/XSLT to enable simple data
inerchange and conversion. Plus XPCOM (Cross Platform Component Object
Model) allow sone to write more advanced pieces in many programming
languages, even embed the platform to take advantage of it's
presentation strengths while using backend code that already works.

Hopefully, I 've cleared that up.

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Josiah Ritchie <josiah at ritchietribe.net> wrote:
> 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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