Smart Clients versus Web Forms

To build the presentation tier of an N-tier application using the Microsoft .NET platform, a software developer must typically choose between thin-client Web forms and smart clients. Both smart clients and Web forms have their pros and cons, and for certain applications the reasons for choosing between them are trivial. For example, smart clients make sense for an application such as Microsoft Outlook, while Web forms are a better solution for an online bill payment Web site with unknown client platforms. In most cases, however, making the correct decision requires carefully comparing smart-client and Web-form technologies´ application characteristics