[FX.php List] IWP vs CWP

[Glenn Singleton]

Hi Frank

I have been doing IWP & CWP since FMS7A came out. I have some  
functioning simple IWP apps (e.g. stationery ordering) that work OK.

I also spent nearly 2 years developing an application that was for  
FMS8A IWP and we were about to do a pre-release and Filemaker  
released Filemaker 9 Server that comes with CWP and you only have to  
buy Filemaker Server 9 Advanced if you want IWP or xdbc. We aborted  
the release thinking no-one would want to pay the extra money for  
Server Advanced just for (in this case) IWP, we are about to release  
our CWP version.

IWP development was fast for layout, but I agree with all the things  
others have said as well as :-
1. The biggest problem is different results for different browsers  
(or even same browser on different platforms).
2. Forget about multiple .fp7 files if you have local web users  
(intranet) and remote web users (internet), never found a solution to  
link them.
3. It's very,very slow compared to CWP
4. There are so many things that you have to find "other" solutions  
for, in our case we were going with PHP (for email, PDF reports) as  
well as IWP

If it is a small straight forward Filemaker (functions) only, you can  
try IWP but all long term solutions tend to go CWP.

Just my 2c

Glenn Singleton