no, actually, I hadn't looked at the cost of a designer client as a separate / significant expense.
That said, it is not difficult to design a vanilla website (one of the applications I have designed / implemented / improved / etc) that can be customised.
Maintenance can still be quite onerous (one of the favourite areas for re-write is group calendaring -- nice article on you site, btw). And the end users still have to be taught how to customise the applicaton (how to populate the menus and update the feeds, etc).
How far have you got with your vision? I'm still not sure what benefit you're looking to generate.
Are you thinking of using the C++ API to duplicate Designer functionality?
The point I was making was that it sounds like you're trying to recode the Designer client (written in C) with DHTML and Javascript. I am entirely skeptical that it would even be feasible. But, if you see an opportunity, go ahead -- that's how the free market works. (I'm assuming you've done some market research and there is a bona fide requirement for such a beast.) I'd love you to prove my skepticism unwarranted.
(Actually, if you use Assembler Language instead of C you'll probably find a HUGE potential for improving the performance -- judging by the tools used to compile some of the object code and the wasted space, therein. It's just a project of colossal proportions, and I would be confident that there are better ways to occupy that sort of effort. ;o)
Hi Stan,
no, actually, I hadn't looked at the cost of a designer client as a separate / significant expense.
That said, it is not difficult to design a vanilla website (one of the applications I have designed / implemented / improved / etc) that can be customised.
Maintenance can still be quite onerous (one of the favourite areas for re-write is group calendaring -- nice article on you site, btw). And the end users still have to be taught how to customise the applicaton (how to populate the menus and update the feeds, etc).
How far have you got with your vision? I'm still not sure what benefit you're looking to generate.
Are you thinking of using the C++ API to duplicate Designer functionality?
The point I was making was that it sounds like you're trying to recode the Designer client (written in C) with DHTML and Javascript. I am entirely skeptical that it would even be feasible. But, if you see an opportunity, go ahead -- that's how the free market works. (I'm assuming you've done some market research and there is a bona fide requirement for such a beast.) I'd love you to prove my skepticism unwarranted.
(Actually, if you use Assembler Language instead of C you'll probably find a HUGE potential for improving the performance -- judging by the tools used to compile some of the object code and the wasted space, therein. It's just a project of colossal proportions, and I would be confident that there are better ways to occupy that sort of effort. ;o)