Is Richard clients dead?

It should of course be rich clients,  not Richard. Stupid phone!
:-)

firmaet opgraderer til html5 - følg med eller gå.

If I get you right, if a webbrowser displays a webpage  using html5, then the webpage can access devices connected through usb on the client side?
If this is the case I really need to look into this.
Best regards
Fredrik

Client side JavaScript access to devices is limited. It should be possible to get access to camera though.

So if you only need camera and what else is supported, then you are good.

If you need more then you need to evaluate alternatives:

A) Stick with your rich/fat client - those are not completely going away (but usage is decreasing and you need to evaluate technology careful - Java applets, SilverLight and Flash are all going away - you will need to look at Java Web Start or .NET click once or similar)

B) Use a hybrid client, real code running client side that can access devices etc., but the majority of functionality including UI is done in a WebView that is fed HTML 5.

C) Use a pure HTML 5 client, but install a small server app on clients that accesses devices and make data available to the HTML 5 client via web services. In the Java world that could be done by embedding Jetty.

Hello!
Enormous thanks for all replies!
The conclusion seems to be that it acctually might be possible. But a shift of technology might be hard and difficult. Most probably pretty expensive then. To me it looks like it might be easier to look into alternative a) in Arnes post. But I must admitt that b) and c) are tempting challanges.
Again thanks alot for the oppertunity to discuss this with you!
Best regards
Fredrik
Btw the guy I talked about is not named Richard :-)