[bradleyland]

Zoho Creator is probably the closest thing to a web-based Access product that I've seen, and it's still not quite Access. Access occupied a very strange space in between an actual application framework, a database GUI, and an IDE.

[kyllo]

I personally would not want to be responsible for security for a web-based Access clone. Enormous attack surface area.

But I think Access is awesome for making and battle-testing prototypes that can eventually become actual CRUD apps. Great intermediate step somewhere in-between e-mailing spreadsheets and building a Rails app, for getting shit done at the office.

[bradleyland]

Agree 100% on this. To truly replicate Access online, you'll have to provide some sort of scripting interface that is moderately performant. Seems like a complete nightmare.

[hackerews]

Scripting for access? How so? I thought it was only queries and forms.

[kyllo]

Three letters: VBA.

[hackerews]

Ha. After years of Access, never realized VBA was popular with it.