i actually wrote a little on this before (SERIOUSLY, WE NEED A PRODUCT IDEAS OR FEAT. REQUEST SPACE FOR CHROMEOS): Not that i want to bring it out again, but this OS would be a full webapp environment and it SHOULD work well for the people making webapps (developers), for that there are a couple of things needed and probably some of these should be part of a chrome-extras packg that you can choose to add or not depending on your development intentions either for multimedia, webapps or web sites.
DEVELOPMENT - Analysis Plugins for web pages (colorzilla, firebug and webdeveloper are the 3 firefox plugins that cover most of what is needed) - Appengine SDK should go all-webapp, related to your own account so you can test your app and separate files while working on them as if it where an online SDK. Add GWT and a basic WYSIWYG/HTML editor to this to close the deal. Make it work in full for Python and JAVA (and maybe a future Go Language version). This webapp should be gears capable (for offline use) - VirtualBox: to test different apps/OS/browser combinations MULTIMEDIA - VLC in full embedded inside browser/OS windowing system and have the settings windows using panels. This would let you work with multimedia files and also play some tunes and videos on the go. - Youtube vids creation, a webapp that lets you screencapture in parts or fullscreen and a video capture (webcam) so you can capture and upload. Also gears capable for offline use. COLLABORATION - Docs: need to be at least as good as openoffice and more interoperable (currently what i do on openoffice or msoffice doesnt seem equal on docs and same way around). Also, there is a huge need for a business graphics tool (like visio and smartdraw...i like more smartdraw) - Sites: CSS/javascript/html editable and capable - Gtalk/Mail: if this thing can connect to MSN and Skype in a way and keep them separated but in the same program (for email and chat) there is no need for anything else...and for god sake, add SIP. EXTERNAL (which i would love to see google buying them) - Aviary.com has webapps you can use to work on graphics and sound (future video editing app also). They just need to work on an offline capable version and work a lot on training and docs. - Wolfram Alfa: for information analysis - Blackberry: 2way Sync on everything and an administration interface...their next version browser will be based on webkit so anythind done on chromeOS as a webapp would probably be workable from your BB too. - ipod/itunes admin interface: let's face it, it works fine, but there is nothing yet for linux. Something needs to be done. If all these go the extra mile and get to be embedded inside the browser/OS, and work well offline too, you get yourself a good nice development and mobile workstation. WebGL is on it's way...so all these are achievable. Throw in a couple of games (world of warcraft, sims3, eve online, burnout paradise, assasin's creed, grand theft auto 5 and Final Fantasy 14 online) in the webapp environment and a really good machine like the new hp 311 with an external output to a 1080 TV/ monitor with HDMI and i dont't think large notebooks and other OS have a future. I'm really excited to see all this work. my couple of cents there On Nov 24, 11:08 am, alexander <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I watch the introduction video of chrome OS and I can tell that > google has definitly something interesting going on with this thing. > The other day I was thinking about how also the OS can benefit the > developers what pretty much work creating and writing web apps... > > So I thought... that it will be more than interesting that the OS came > with an application so like web developers and so fort can develop > using the Chrome OS... I mean I can imagine myself working on a beach > with my netbook with Chrome OS writing web apps or what ever... > > I think it will kind of interesting to have some application include > or that I can be use so developers can take avantage of the OS... > > I hope my idea gets throught and something cool come out of it. > > respectfully, > > Alex -- Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss
