I continue to be under the assumption that bound controls and filtering on the client are the essence of VB-like GUI apps. If this isn't the case for you, then what do "VB-like GUI apps" entail that's different from web apps? Comboboxes?


You can change just about anything anywhere on any screen at any time (within the app).

If web apps are (or can be) so similar to C/S GUI apps, then how come there are no VB/Delphi/PB-like IDE's for developing them? (The closest thing I know of is the Oracle Forms using it's Java-applet-based "GUI Browser". But Oracle Forms stinks to high heck. It has a certain "personality" that you have to negotiate with. It does not easily allow "changing anything anywhere on any screen at any time" and forces outdated Windows-3x-like conventions on you. If their GUI Browser was only an open standard or OSS, then it might go further.)