Silverlight :: Technology Choice For A Specific Rich/thick Client App?
Dec 14, 2011
I have a django site where I'm thinking about making a rich/thick client app to allow the user to do operations that would otherwise be really difficult to otherwise. some of the requirements would be things like importing xls, csv documents being able to manipulate data from the site and/or from the imported xls in a drag and drop fashion (e.g. put a bunch of users in groups, etc)etc It seems the rich client choices out there seem to be
silverlight
flex
HTML5 + whatever.
and thick client
.NET
Java
I'm not crazy about making a thick client because (desktop/laptop) platform independence would be nice.HTML5 would allow me to offer stuff to users on tablets i suppose,... but it's a luxury and doesn't really fit the main use case anyway.If there is a service provider out there that has a platform for doing things like this that i can just leverage, well that would be awesome too.
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