Great possibilities, but I think the most important component (and the component he's not touching yet) is sync.
IMO, the coolest feature of Slingshot is that Joyent provides (or will provide...) the developer with a framework that abstracts away dealing with sync & offline data. Web apps and desktop apps both have there advantages and disadvantages: - with web apps, you can access your data from any where... - ...except when there's no internet...which is where desktop apps come out on top, except for the fact that your data is locked into one location - desktop apps also 'feel' nicer, and are integrated with the OS What I would love to see is a Python framework that integrates with Django, enables PyObjC apps to use Django models for data storage, with sync to a remote DB . I.e. the data is stored both locally and remotely, with sync between the two. Having the webapp UI would be useful for many applications, but I think a native UI would have advantages too. Tom On 29-Mar-07, at 2:00 PM, Daniel Lord wrote: > This is the start of a trend we are going to see more and more of: > the covergence of Web and Desktop or "Web-top". > Dashboard/Konfabulator were the first big step, with Slingshot and > Apollo the next big one. > Granted this is pre-alpha code, but one can start imagining the > possibilities. > > http://jerakeen.org/blog/2007/03/djangokit/ > _______________________________________________ > Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig > _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
