[FX.php List] IWP vs CWP

[Jonathan Schwartz]

But let it be said that the learning curve for Custom Web Publishing, 
at least for me, was a real bear.  With no previous programming 
experience or web serving base knowledge, it took me the better part 
of 2 years to feel that I had finally "arrived".  Yet, there is still 
much to learn and not enough hours in the day.

J


At 6:44 AM +1100 12/2/07, Glenn Singleton wrote:
>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
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