Suppose I Create And Nobody Allows

[magnets]

Not many people using this board. Perhaps there is a reason?

Except for major established well-respected websites, most people do not allow just anyone install windows applications.

How does Gnope or GTK or PHP or whatever you call this solution, get around that show-stopper issue?

Isn't Javascript combined with <div>s, CSS and DOM manipulation a more acceptable way to go?

Quite frankly I would prefer to use PHP for all development. However, I simply see no way around installation of code on a user's PC. I use PHP on my PC today, but that is only because I have an Apache web server running on my Windows PC. And, I of course had to install code to do that.

So, if I want to have something that looks like a PC-application, I go the javascript way. For small embedded functions I use an IFRAME and that marketing term (AJAX).

Am I missing something?