Re: [IxDA Discuss] Difference b/w online & installed apps

2008-04-30 Thread Peter Roman
Hi Vishal, A lot of the work we've done here at Picnik.com has been to ensure that our app is a good web citizen. Meaning, back and forward buttons do in fact navigate as expected, users can in fact create bookmarks to specific tools, and perhaps most importantly, the app does everything it po

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Difference b/w online & installed apps

2008-04-30 Thread Jeff Garbers
On Apr 29, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Vishal Iyer wrote: > The browser until now has been primarily an information exchange > application, hence the bookmarks, back button, refresh, history etc. > With the rapid increase in task based applications over the web, the > next generation browser (and fron

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Difference b/w online & installed apps

2008-04-29 Thread Vishal Iyer
The browser until now has been primarily an information exchange application, hence the bookmarks, back button, refresh, history etc. With the rapid increase in task based applications over the web, the next generation browser (and front-end scripting) will potentially further reduce reduce the gap

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Difference b/w online & installed apps

2008-04-29 Thread Michael Micheletti
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Vishal Iyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was asking from a IxD perspective (conceptually too). Say you're > designing > an image editing tool that will be distributed both online and as an > installable s/w. Assuming there are no technical limitations, would they

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Difference b/w online & installed apps

2008-04-29 Thread Vishal Iyer
Michael, I totally agree, these are the technical decisions that our dev team is making. Photoshop won't be an online app in the near future, but there are basic image editing programs that are. I was asking from a IxD perspective (conceptually too). Say you're designing an image editing tool tha

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Difference b/w online & installed apps

2008-04-29 Thread Michael Micheletti
Hi Vishal, I work in a real-time two-way communications domain, so I'm off at the edge here. But I find there are a small constellation of functions that just don't work now with browser-based applications without either employing crazy architectures or shoveling massive traffic across the network

[IxDA Discuss] Difference b/w online & installed apps

2008-04-29 Thread Vishal Iyer
I'm designing Interaction models, process flows and interfaces for an application that can potentially be an online app or an installed one (depending on capability, performance needs). From a design perspective, should there be a difference between the two? There are of course inherent interface e