On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 12:26 PM, Brant E. Layton dcci@futureone.com wrote:
One more point for the desktop application: Navigation.
I've worked with many applications that are intense data entry - and the best ones can be 'driven' entirely from the keyboard. You don't have to reach for the mouse to make selections, etc. Of course, there are those users that don't know where the TAB key is...
Trying to fill out forms on the Web? Only about one half of the web pages I encounter can even set focus to the first fillable field - let alone navigate the entire page efficiently. (bank login pages...)
But, we mostly just put up with what we are given.
Didn't millions of people do their tax returns online this past year?
Doing apps for the web is NOT like doing an app for the desktop and way too many developers make the mistake thinking "its and app".
Then you are told to make it work on the phone. so you stuff all that crap onto a smaller landscape because "its just an app".
Does anyone still have VCR buttons on their screens for next, previous, search, edit, bla-bla-bla?
Our ERP system is 100% web and it is all data entry as well. There are only 35,256 tables in this SQL Server database for the system. It keeps 250-400 users humming through the day no problem and everything is real fast no matter where in the world you access it from.