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Technologies for Easily Downloadable Web-based Design Applications - Overview
Technologies for easily downloadable Web-based design applications are the right choice if you are looking for a more sophisticated interactive design application, which customers can download and use off-line if desired.
The Benefits:
- Very powerful and flexible with huge range of custom functionality
- Customers can work off-line
The Downside:
- Takes more time to install and get started
- Software updates have to be downloaded and installed
The table below provides an overview of some of the features, benefits and shortcomings of each solution. Click on each technology header or browse the tick marks and crosses for more information.
| Summary | Downloadable application for 2D and/or 3D design that runs within a browser, with highly interactive user interfaces. | Downloadable, flexible and powerful application for 2D and/or 3D design that can be launched from within a browser. |
| No plug-ins/downloads |
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| Embedded in existing Web page |
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| Runs in Browser |
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| 2D Graphics |
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| Vector Graphics |
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| 3D Graphics |
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| Quick with complex shapes |
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| Visually smart and elegant |
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| Multi-platform |
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| Can handle complex functionality |
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| Can support intelligent links to your catalogue data* |
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| Can generate data suitable to other applications (e.g. CAD)** |
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| Ease of developing applications using this technology (1=easier 5=more difficult) |
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* All technologies can use AJAX to dynamically update their contents based on a catalogue of parts downloaded from the server. This can occur asynchronously to improve the response time for Web page download.
** All technologies can generate data suitable for other systems. We also recommend using XHR (XML HTTP Requests) to transfer data on user interaction to server side processes for storage and evaluation.
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