re: cooliris and more general 3d interfaces. It's like the Wii. You see someone else use one and you want it, but then after you've got your own and used it a few times you realise it's not as useful as you thought :)
-glen. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Adam Salter <adam.q.sal...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Agreed. > Exposé is a pretty cool (and useful) technology on the desktop, which > involves 3d manipulation and effects. > Also Mover App on iPhone: > http://www.iphonelife.com/blog/2884/mover-app-does-move-it-move-it > > Also, for sake of completeness, MS "Surface" technology, but I've > _NEVER_ actually seen as more than a product demonstration... > > I still think it would make a great 'history' browser as long as it is > still accessible and degrades gracefully... > > -Adam > > On 15/07/2009, at 10:34 AM, Nathan de Vries wrote: > > > > > On 15/07/2009, at 10:00 AM, James Salter wrote: > >> Revolution? yeah maybe for say, band websites, but I'm sceptical this > >> is a big deal for anyone trying to develop web apps with complexity > >> anywhere above trivial. > > > > 3D effects probably won't be used too much in practical cases, but > > Snow Stack demonstrates much more than 3D effects. I think we're > > slowly going to see web pages transition from static, boxy pages into > > fluid applications that respect the principles of animation [1]. We've > > already seen this on the iPhone, where (mostly) appropriate use of > > animation makes interacting with applications much more pleasurable. > > CSS transforms open the door to decent animation on the web. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Nathan de Vries > > > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_basic_principles_of_animation > > > > > > > > > > -- Glen Maddern 0423 118 405 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
