First off, I've only done rudimentary web programming myself, I'm speaking as just a plain user on this. I am a long time (decades) programmer of both the IBM iSeries machines and Windows.
The things that bother me are cursor control and dynamically and automatically updating data in a form based on current inputs. I just don't see programmers doing anything in this realm, leaving it up to the user to both place the cursor in the next field, and having the right attribute (overwrite or insert). Auto type ahead would be nice too. It's all ends up being so slow user-wise, and that's not counting web browser latency, which can be significant as well..
We just had a large project where a very large in the small business field vendor replace one of our archaic applications with a web based app. (I didn't do the project myself, it was all user and V.P. level based) It lasted 2 weeks, then we reverted back to a very antiquated iseries application. The only comment I could get out of them was it was a mess. Since this was a pretty recognized application area with a very large vendor, I can only surmise it was the data entry and reporting that was the problem. I may have been able to help with the transition, but being V.P. level stuff, and I'm just a IT manager, I really just don't ask questions, I do things they ask.
No, nothing like that. Think of purchasing, inventory, sales, ..., ERP basically. Normal multi application business stuff.
On that note though, I don't like web distributed speadsheets either. Versions of what it was created with and what version a user has on their machine can be so critical in functionality, I wish people would just stop trying to make it work and go to something like adobe reader forms instead. I just had to fill out one of these forms for our state government and it just plain didn't work with my O365 local version. Close as I could tell is that it was created in Office 97 and all the trust center stuff in more modern versions had a total cow with anything they tried to do in that spreadsheet and I didn't want to take the time to fix it, so I filled it out on paper.
It's all ease of use problems to me. And some browsers working with some things and others with other things, to quote that user I asked above, it's messy. Speed of browser based delivery is secondary most of the time -- unless there's a problem...
