Ian Clarke wrote: > > If the current "everything on the web" thing (started by Hotmail) tells us > > anything it is that people do not like to download specialized clients. > > Oh come on, there is no basis for that claim. Hotmail is popular > because it just-so-happens that reading and sending email over the web > works reasonably well. I could point to the success of Napster, Winamp, > Netscape mail & news, and a whole host of clients that people do > download and do use.
>From a usability point of view, custom clients are far better than trying to cram stuff into a web browser (or other "do everything" platform). Jakob Nielsen has written a few articles on the subject: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000430.html http://www.useit.com/alertbox/980920.html -- zem at zip.com.au F289 2BDB 1DA0 F4C4 DC87 EC36 B2E3 4E75 C853 FD93 zem.squidly.org "..I'm invisible, I'm invisible, I'm invisible.." _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
