On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Joshua Muskovitz jo...@taconic.net wrote:
For the same reason your car isn't a daiquiri.
I don't think this is a valid analogy. I think Kim's original questions
points to the current blurring of lines that's happening between the
previous dichotomy of apps vs.
If you go back to 1987 Byte Magazine ran a cover about the Browser been the
future OS.
Netscape and Sun both pushed this view that the OS was dead. Sun was
pushing Java applets.
Microsoft then launched a browser. Years of Anti Trust battle happened.
Back in 1987 there was two challenges. Most
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Kim Bieler kimbie...@gmail.com wrote:
I hope this isn't a dumb question, but I've been thinking about how
much duplication there is between the OS and the browser -- each has
its own navigation, its own file structure, its own applications and
plug-ins, and
Okay, I hope it's clear that no one is talking about a Browser BEING an
Operating System. Yes, an OS handles all kinds of under-the-hood things that
the Browser never even thought of. Which is why a Browser runs on top of an
OS-- so it doesn't have to think about pesky things like device drivers
Ambrose wrote:
They might cache apps/data locally temporarily, but it's not as permanent
as local apps.
Google Gears took this distinction away from local apps long ago, no?
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On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Nasir Barday
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wrote:
Ambrose wrote:
They might cache apps/data locally temporarily, but it's not as permanent
as local apps.
Google Gears took this distinction away from local apps long ago, no?
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Depends
I hope this isn't a dumb question, but I've been thinking about how
much duplication there is between the OS and the browser -- each has
its own navigation, its own file structure, its own applications and
plug-ins, and all that real-estate-hogging chrome!
Sure, some businesses are never going to
For the same reason your car isn't a daiquiri.
An operating system is the framework in which application processes
are executed in a controlled fashion.
Browsers are visual applications, which take data and render it in an
interactive fashion.
You can build devices without operatings systems --
On Sep 10, 2009, at 1:16 PM, Kim Bieler wrote:
Why should I have to remember whether a file is in Google docs, or
saved in Delicious, or nested somewhere on my hard drive?
Well, for a rather simplistic and somewhat smug answer (my apologies),
you'll be quite disappointed to find out that
You'll be quite disappointed to find out that the file is in Google docs
when you open y
our laptop without a network connection. I'd prefer to know exactly where
my file is.
A design problem, the solution to which already comes via Google Gears
(offline sync'd Docs and GMail!)
The distinction
On Sep 10, 2009, at 9:24 PM, Nasir Barday wrote:
The distinction between OS and Browser is becoming unimportant.
Except for the minor fact that without an OS you can't actually launch
a browser.
The main difference is in performance;
The main difference is that the OS actually runs the
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