Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-18 Thread David Bovill
On 17 Nov 2005, at 00:52, Alex Tweedly wrote: I have good confidence in the sanctity of my laptop, so I'm happy to use it, even over public wifi access, because all the traffic is ssh-secured end-to-end. But using a web cafe, or kiosk, public Internet access at a library, etc. all put me

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-18 Thread David Bovill
On 17 Nov 2005, at 04:46, Dan Shafer wrote: Pricing models will change. We'll see pay-per-use, pay-per-month, pay-per-file, pay-per-K and other similar models. When it's not necessary for the manufacturer to package, distribute, sell, track, upgrade and otherwise deal with thousands and

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-18 Thread xavier . bury
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 18/11/2005 12:06:40: On 17 Nov 2005, at 00:52, Alex Tweedly wrote: I have good confidence in the sanctity of my laptop, so I'm happy to use it, even over public wifi access, because all the traffic is ssh-secured end-to-end. But using a web cafe, or kiosk,

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Dan Shafer
Geoff Not a bad job of abstraction and generalization, given the limitations of both of those methodologies. The two advantages you mention for Rev are essentially the same (if you view command keys, e.g., as UI widgets that just don't have a visible representation) and are the very

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Nov 16, 2005, at 11:01 AM, Dan Shafer wrote: So *if* -- and that's a big if -- the *only* advantages of Rev over AJAX is the UI componentry, then Rev has essentially little or no advantage. Based on what I've seen of AJAX apps, it's not a small advantage. But I should have expanded on

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Dan Shafer
Good job focusing this aspect of the discussion, Geoff. On Nov 16, 2005, at 1:39 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: So if AJAX apps are secure but need local storage, and Rev apps have local storage but need security, which will get what it needs first? My position: once a machine has been booted

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Nov 16, 2005, at 2:24 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: So, my bottom line on *[the local storage] * issue: AJAX apps have a solid edge. Agreed, but only once wireless becomes universally available. That's going to be some time coming. ___

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dan Shafer wrote: So, my bottom line on *this * issue: AJAX apps have a solid edge. Does that mean we'll see this thread move to the AJAX list? ;) -- Richard Gaskin Managing Editor, revJournal ___ Rev tips, tutorials and more:

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Judy Perry
Funny, we just talked about biometric stuff in class a couple of weeks back. Of course, one problem with things like thumb/face scans is that they can be cut off your body (happened to a guy whose MB got carjacked and which used biometrics for access). As for your face, well, there's a doctor

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Dan Shafer
Not sure I see a connection here, Geoff. If my data's on a server, how I access it seems irrelevant to the question of its availability. Of course, all of us await the day when wireless is ubiquitous. And Google may make that happen just for grins. Dan On Nov 16, 2005, at 2:42 PM, Geoff

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Dan Shafer
Dennis. The tablet PC is just a side issue here. My original point with respect to this issue was that a zero-pound computer was a desirable objective. This means that my data and my applications live on a server somewhere and I can access them from anywhere, whether I have my

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Nov 16, 2005, at 3:09 PM, Judy Perry wrote: Funny, we just talked about biometric stuff in class a couple of weeks back. Of course, one problem with things like thumb/face scans is that they can be cut off your body (happened to a guy whose MB got carjacked and which used biometrics

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Dan Shafer
I can only shake my head. Dan On Nov 16, 2005, at 3:09 PM, Judy Perry wrote: Funny, we just talked about biometric stuff in class a couple of weeks back. Of course, one problem with things like thumb/face scans is that they can be cut off your body (happened to a guy whose MB got carjacked

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Dan Shafer
Richard This thread can end here any time it wants. I stopped being proactive on it a long time ago. I just keep answering questions people post. :-) Dan On Nov 16, 2005, at 2:56 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Dan Shafer wrote: So, my bottom line on *this * issue: AJAX apps have a solid

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dan Shafer wrote: My original point with respect to this issue was that a zero-pound computer was a desirable objective. This means that my data and my applications live on a server somewhere and I can access them from anywhere, whether I have my computer with me at the time or not. I can go

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Alex Tweedly
Dan Shafer wrote: The tablet PC is just a side issue here. My original point with respect to this issue was that a zero-pound computer was a desirable objective. This means that my data and my applications live on a server somewhere and I can access them from anywhere, whether I have

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Charles Hartman
On Nov 16, 2005, at 6:31 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: I can only shake my head. *So far* you can. (Tomorrw Aunt Zelda may shake it for you . . .) Dan On Nov 16, 2005, at 3:09 PM, Judy Perry wrote: Funny, we just talked about biometric stuff in class a couple of weeks back. Of course, one

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Nov 16, 2005, at 3:28 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: Not sure I see a connection here, Geoff. If my data's on a server, how I access it seems irrelevant to the question of its availability. I have all of my phone contacts stored on my computer. Some of them aren't on my cell phone (admittedly

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Dan Shafer
First, there are several technologies that work around this problem. I am working with a startup that has a USB device that handles this issue nicely and I know of a couple of others. The problem is hardly intractable. Second, what happens when you lose your laptop or have it stolen?

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Dan Shafer
Geoff... On Nov 16, 2005, at 4:16 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: Further, even after universal wireless access, speed can be an issue if large files are involved. As Richard pointed out, downloading 150mb worth of Photoshop each time I want to use it isn't a good idea even at 802.11g speeds.

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Alex Tweedly
Geoff Canyon wrote: On Nov 16, 2005, at 3:28 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: Not sure I see a connection here, Geoff. If my data's on a server, how I access it seems irrelevant to the question of its availability. I have all of my phone contacts stored on my computer. Some of them aren't on my

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Alex Tweedly
Dan Shafer wrote: First, there are several technologies that work around this problem. I am working with a startup that has a USB device that handles this issue nicely and I know of a couple of others. The problem is hardly intractable. I'll be glad to hear about them when they are

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Nov 16, 2005, at 4:42 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: Geoff... On Nov 16, 2005, at 4:16 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: Further, even after universal wireless access, speed can be an issue if large files are involved. As Richard pointed out, downloading 150mb worth of Photoshop each time I want to use

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Chipp Walters
Alex Tweedly wrote: I'm not concerned about Internet wires and signals - I happily use Internet banking over public wifi - Wow! Can you tell me which Starbucks you'll be visiting soon? ;-) I know of people who troll near public wifi spots just looking to grab usernames and passwords. I

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Chipp Walters
Alex Tweedly wrote: This would apply (pretty well) to the case of applications, where the Web-Photoshop would be (presumably) a set of modularized functions which could be cached. I suspect that most users never need more than about 50% of the features in Photoshop (maybe that should be 10%

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Alex Tweedly
Chipp Walters wrote: I'm not concerned about Internet wires and signals - I happily use Internet banking over public wifi - Wow! Can you tell me which Starbucks you'll be visiting soon? ;-) None - but that's for other reasons :-) I know of people who troll near public wifi spots just

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Chipp Walters
Geoff Canyon wrote: I'm thinking of an app as a thing that allows me to manipulate my data. Obviously there are also apps that allow me to browse other people's data. That's what Google Maps is. We'll know that Rev is being challenged when there are successful Ajax apps that let me work

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Alex Tweedly
Chipp Walters wrote: Alex Tweedly wrote: This would apply (pretty well) to the case of applications, where the Web-Photoshop would be (presumably) a set of modularized functions which could be cached. I suspect that most users never need more than about 50% of the features in Photoshop

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Depending on your definition, it might be Archie: http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/ivh/chap4.htm The first web search engine seems to be a difficult one to track down, however... On Nov 16, 2005, at 9:11 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: I can't

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Charles Hartman
On Nov 16, 2005, at 9:43 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: I don't believe that a Web-Photoshop would need to satisfy the digital photography professional (mapping professionals aren't using Google Maps !). I think to get a commercially successful web- based photography editing app you need to

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Dan Shafer
Lots of my colleagues tell me I'm insufficiently paranoid. Maybe I am. Dan On Nov 16, 2005, at 4:51 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: I'm not concerned about Internet wires and signals - I happily use Internet banking over public wifi - it's getting the data from the keyboard to the wire, or

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Dan Shafer
Geoff On Nov 16, 2005, at 5:43 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: A better application would be able to save your work temporarily without having to hit the server. It would also download additional modules in the background whether you had an immediate need or not. This is the sort of

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Dan Shafer
Not sure, either, but I suspect it's Alta Vista. Dan On Nov 16, 2005, at 6:43 PM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote: The first web search engine seems to be a difficult one to track down, however... ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Dan Shafer
I think not. Pricing models will change. We'll see pay-per-use, pay-per-month, pay- per-file, pay-per-K and other similar models. When it's not necessary for the manufacturer to package, distribute, sell, track, upgrade and otherwise deal with thousands and thousands of copies of the

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Judy Perry
I don't think it helped the guy who's digit got cut off to steal his Benz, though... Judy On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Geoff Canyon wrote: Under the heading of I kid you not: I once read on a web site discussing biometric identification the following words (roughly). Of course, you may be

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-16 Thread Judy Perry
RATS!!! Make that whose :-/ Judy On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Judy Perry wrote: I don't think it helped the guy who's digit got cut off to steal his Benz, though... ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-15 Thread David Bovill
On 14 Nov 2005, at 20:53, Dan Shafer wrote: Agreed. That and security are the issues and they have been more than adequately addressed for a long time now. The omigod my data isn't on my own server alarm is a red herring. Any company that sees the advantage in distributed browser-based

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-15 Thread Dan Shafer
David. If we had a trusted business relationship established and you needed my accounts, I would feel every bit as secure making them available over the Net as I do sending them in the mail. Since we don't :-) Dan On Nov 15, 2005, at 3:22 PM, David Bovill wrote: On 14 Nov

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-15 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Nov 13, 2005, at 11:12 PM, Graham Samuel wrote: I want to know, are we looking at a 'paradigm shift' or an addition to the spectrum of possible app technologies or what? AJAX generalizes to this: an engine stored on the user's computer accessing program code and data from a server on

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-14 Thread Rob Cozens
Dan, I don't think this negates the fundamental truth of my core position here: this kind of app, perhaps with additional infrastructure improvement, is the wave of the future I don't doubt your enthusiasm; but I do believe you downplay the desire of businesses (and perhaps individuals) to

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-14 Thread Rob Cozens
Ken, et al: Personally my feeling is that this *could be* the wave of the future, and so we should be keeping close tabs on it as the future pans out, and for those of us that see this as more inevitable, I'd suggest finding a good niche to add value. And for those us that see this as more

RE: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-14 Thread MisterX
Rob, I live this every day... My code and stacks are on my website. Open to the public. Those are work, are open to other admins - and given the tons of logs, you only watch when there's an error worth looking! Wave of the future or flavor of the week? Here's a question to help you decide:

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time [long]

2005-11-14 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- David Bovill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The main problem with the web service paradigm is for this sort of application area. Noone is very happy trusting sensitive data this way. Would you want your financial or medical data going over a web service? Even if secured via HTTPS?

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-14 Thread Ken Ray
On 11/14/05 9:58 AM, Rob Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken, et al: Personally my feeling is that this *could be* the wave of the future, and so we should be keeping close tabs on it as the future pans out, and for those of us that see this as more inevitable, I'd suggest finding a good

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time [long]

2005-11-14 Thread Dan Shafer
And this is precisely the problem set at which AJAX is squarely aimed. On Nov 14, 2005, at 11:17 AM, Jan Schenkel wrote: Until browsers offer more widgets that don't require horrendous Javascripts to control the data entry and limit the round-trips to the server, the building of such

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-14 Thread Dan Shafer
Agreed. That and security are the issues and they have been more than adequately addressed for a long time now. The omigod my data isn't on my own server alarm is a red herring. Any company that sees the advantage in distributed browser-based apps can easily deal with the scary parts of

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-13 Thread Mark Wieder
Dave- Saturday, November 12, 2005, 4:54:07 PM, you wrote: I suspect the CIO was talking about web services in the narrow sense of something like SOAP (no longer word of the month). And if My main problem with web and SOAP services is that they seem to appear and disappear every six months

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-13 Thread David Bovill
On 13 Nov 2005, at 05:24, Sivakatirswami wrote: Actually he was talking about a very much larger framework/standard where Warner Brothers was thinking if they did it that way then everyone could talk to their accounting via web services, banks, vendors... etc everyone... i.e. the

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-13 Thread Sivakatirswami
More real world testimony: For several years I've been uploading the files for our magazine Hinduism Today to Banta Publication in Missouri, using their Emerge program which is this giant JAVA applet that runs inside a browser and interfaces with Creo's amazing InSite prepress system. It's

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-13 Thread David Bovill
On 13 Nov 2005, at 20:45, Sivakatirswami wrote: For these people, as Chipp said, productivity is the most important issue, with nearly 500 publications a year to get out the door, some of the weeklies, its time to get real, and the glitter of the web service has finally worn off, get the

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-13 Thread Sivakatirswami
Dan: I am admittedly very ignorant of the overall picture, issues and the lexicon of this environment (AJAX is another brand name for COMET you use to clean sinks..) , but this is still an important discussion for us as we develop our own web sites and services, so let me just ask some

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-13 Thread Mark Smith
I have to say, I'm a little baffled about what is being discussed here. Is it just the idea of apps (or applets in browsers) that interact with remote servers in real (ish) time? Dynamic HTML or XML generation? Obviously, we have these already, so what is it? Densely, Mark Smith

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-12 Thread Sivakatirswami
The CIO of a 2 billion dollar accounting firm that handles movie and media events accounting for the likes of Warner Brothers and Disney, is on our team... he was just here in my office yesterday, explaining to me to be very cautious about using of web services. Warner Brother's forced

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-12 Thread Dan Shafer
From which experience i conclude: (a) AJAX and RIAs are not a panacea (b) $2 billion acconting firms IT shops probably don't embrace new technologies in the first place (having seen *that* up close and personal) (c) Moving information from one Web service to another is often difficult

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-12 Thread Dave Cragg
On 13 Nov 2005, at 00:19, Dan Shafer wrote: From which experience i conclude: (a) AJAX and RIAs are not a panacea (b) $2 billion acconting firms IT shops probably don't embrace new technologies in the first place (having seen *that* up close and personal) (c) Moving information from one

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-12 Thread Sivakatirswami
Actually he was talking about a very much larger framework/standard where Warner Brothers was thinking if they did it that way then everyone could talk to their accounting via web services, banks, vendors... etc everyone... i.e. the problem wasn't narrow scope but the behemoth octopus

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-10 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Nov 9, 2005, at 10:19 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: For example, the RevOnline stack. It's parts are not parts. The content can be changed but not the tools. It would be cool if the next time you clicked on news or users, you would get a newer and more capable/efficient gui each time... I

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-10 Thread Judy Perry
Indeed, Just today I was at my office in my university's satellite campus at the old El Toro marine base. No wi-fi. Network speed is simply gawdawful. Something like two or three public access Macs (I'm a Mac user). Man, I'd hate like heck to have to rely on thin clients and the like. (I

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-10 Thread xavier . bury
fuel for the ajax fire ;) http://books.slashdot.org/books/05/11/09/1555231.shtml?tid=156tid=6 i particularly liked the comment that said Good Java programmers use Python... ;) no talk of rev there though... But lots of worthy comments in the context...

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-10 Thread Dan Shafer
Thanks for the pointer, Xavier. Some cogent comments in amongst the usual /. chaff. Dan On Nov 10, 2005, at 12:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fuel for the ajax fire ;) http://books.slashdot.org/books/05/11/09/1555231.shtml?tid=156tid=6 i particularly liked the comment that said Good Java

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-10 Thread Dave Cragg
On 10 Nov 2005, at 06:36, Mark Wieder wrote: Dan- Wednesday, November 9, 2005, 4:16:42 PM, you wrote: There is no necessary connection between where data is and where the app is. That's just today's temporary model. That may be true, but according to UNESCO's 3 November report on

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-10 Thread David Bovill
On 10 Nov 2005, at 00:38, Dan Shafer wrote: I almost labeled this post off-topic since our purpose here is to discuss how to use Revolution. But I decided on balance that it affects everyone here, so I left off the [OT]. I've just posted a blog entry at http://www.eclecticity.com/.

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-10 Thread Rob Cozens
Dan, et al: Some people may well want to continue to pay premium prices for software so that they can keep their data on their local drives, but: (a) those people will eventually have to give way to the market forces if for no other reason than that all the software publishers head over there;

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-10 Thread Andre Garzia
Folks, one thing we're ignoring on this thread but that is a very important issue. The cost for the developer to deliver desktop apps versus the cost to deliver web apps. This is a major issue for small developers such as me. For example imagine my old blog client called BlogWorkz. It's

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-10 Thread Dan Shafer
I do not disagree, David. I don't necessarily think that either AJAX or RIAs in general need be confined to the existing standard browser. I mentioned specialized browsers specifically in my post. I just think these specialized browsers will be ultrathin, designed to facilitate access to

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-10 Thread Dan Shafer
Andre. On Nov 10, 2005, at 8:47 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: desktop is cheaper and easier to deliver Once again, your view is limited to what now is rather than to what can and will emerge. Software is an ecosystem. Today, if you took your blogging tool and made an AJAX version, you

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dan Shafer wrote: I mentioned specialized browsers specifically in my post. I just think these specialized browsers will be ultrathin, designed to facilitate access to the application (which I suspect quickly becomes a sort of outmoded notion as the lines blur) on the server or the grid.

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-10 Thread Chipp Walters
Dan, Do you remember Phillips CDI initiative, or the many other CD-ROM developer platforms? They all made grand promises but never delivered. Even more recently, think about Java and it's promise of cross-platform clients? Again, everyone had to stop and convert over to Java, but now we see

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Andre Garzia wrote: That's one reason why I think the BIG ones will do some AJAX as flavour of the month (or year) and the small developers will keep to the desktop, desktop is cheaper and easier to deliver. For the big ones is also a question of pride and image, like Hey Microsoft, Google

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-10 Thread David Bovill
On 10 Nov 2005, at 18:50, Dan Shafer wrote: Once again, your view is limited to what now is rather than to what can and will emerge. Software is an ecosystem. Today, if you took your blogging tool and made an AJAX version, you might well see yourself being forced to create a massive and

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-10 Thread Trevor DeVore
Hi Dan, On Nov 10, 2005, at 9:50 AM, Dan Shafer wrote: Once again, your view is limited to what now is rather than to what can and will emerge. Software is an ecosystem. Today, if you took your blogging tool and made an AJAX version, you might well see yourself being forced to create a

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-10 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Nov 10, 2005, at 10:12 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: (Let's see, to develop in AJAX, you probably need to be an expert in the following: Javascript HTML CSS PHP,ASP or JSP SQL DOM XML cross-platform techniques cross-browser techniques ODBC The big kicker is the cross-platform/browser

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-10 Thread Dan Shafer
No, specialized ultra-thin custom browsers that RUN apps on the server. Thin clients, not thick. On Nov 10, 2005, at 10:03 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Specialized ultra-thin custom browsers that download apps from a server?

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-10 Thread Dan Shafer
On Nov 10, 2005, at 10:12 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: Then there is the ubiquitous 'Web Services.' They have been touted by the press and media for the past 5 years as the 'new technology', yet we still see very little in the way of open web services available to write apps around. Certainly

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dan Shafer wrote: No, specialized ultra-thin custom browsers that RUN apps on the server. Thin clients, not thick. Given that a script interpreter will reside client-side in either the browser, a Ruby interpreter, a Python engine, or a Rev engine, the difference between thick and thin in

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-10 Thread Dan Shafer
Trevor. On Nov 10, 2005, at 10:33 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote: Getting things to work across browsers can be a headache. Start with the basic assumption that only a browser that groks the XMLHTTPRequest object is a candidate for AJAX technology deployment. The subset of those browsers is

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-10 Thread Dan Shafer
Maybe it's a thin client that overate last night. Dan On Nov 10, 2005, at 11:03 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Given that a script interpreter will reside client-side in either the browser, a Ruby interpreter, a Python engine, or a Rev engine, the difference between thick and thin in this

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-10 Thread Dave LeYanna
Ok, how's this... Get a good marketing department for Sun and resurrect the hardware based JVM. Use a thin client that communicated with application that communicated with the JVM any or all of which could be anywhere with a minimum of the thin client and personal data being on your personal

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-10 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Nov 10, 2005, at 11:03 AM, Dan Shafer wrote: Trevor. On Nov 10, 2005, at 10:33 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote: Getting things to work across browsers can be a headache. Start with the basic assumption that only a browser that groks the XMLHTTPRequest object is a candidate for AJAX

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-10 Thread Andre Garzia
On Nov 10, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: And your notions about 'specialized browsers' and discounting Andre's server development issues so quickly only points to the great hurdles which AJAX still has to make, currently with no visible roadmap. Andre has a server developer's

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-10 Thread Dan Shafer
Absolutely, Trevor, and several such libraries already exist. I'm doing a comparative analysis on them at the moment. On Nov 10, 2005, at 11:15 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote: A really good library for interacting with the DOM that has support for drag/drop and other interface niceties is a must

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-10 Thread Erin D. Smale
Compensating for browser antics is probably where I spend a third of my programming time. There are certainly several tried-and-true means by which to ensure compatibility for particular modules in a so-called web app, but as client requirements get more complex, these techniques are proving

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-10 Thread Chipp Walters
Dan, Good point about XMLHTTPRequest, but as someone who works with dynamic content and CSS, I can tell you (and you should know this;-), getting CSS to perform as expected cross browser and cross OS is nigh impossible for dynamic content. At least it's not for the faint of heart! That said

The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-09 Thread Dan Shafer
I almost labeled this post off-topic since our purpose here is to discuss how to use Revolution. But I decided on balance that it affects everyone here, so I left off the [OT]. I've just posted a blog entry at http://www.eclecticity.com/.3c66aaec that I believe should be of interest to

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dan Shafer wrote: My prediction -- based on a lot of evidence and clinched by two leaked Microsoft memos that you really need to read (they're indirectly linked in my blog entry) -- is that the days of the desktop app are indeed finally numbered. At best, we will see desktops reduced to

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-09 Thread Brian Maher
Dan, The company I work for tried this model (application service provider .. i.e. you rent the software) and it did not work well at all. The simple fact is that people will always want to own both their data and the app that manipulates it. Will some people use this? Yes. Will most

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-09 Thread Andre Garzia
Dan, I was going to comment this on your blog, but I fell this will be a big email and I know blog comment engines are not suited for this (by the way, where is your RSS feed?). I read the memos and I follow slashdot, osnews and a couple other sites with religious practice, I also am a

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-09 Thread Dan Shafer
The fact that one such effort failed -- or even that a bunch of such efforts failed -- is irrelevant in the face of the new market realities. Particularly the ad supported software model is one that I think has a tremendous amount of potential to be disruptive. Some people may well want to

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-09 Thread Dan Shafer
Richard You said, quoting from your wonderful Beyond the Browser piece: Many articles have been published extolling the virtues of Browser-based applications, but few (if any) of these were written in one...” Beg to differ. The Winer blog post that released these articles, the

RE: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-09 Thread John Tregea
- It's Real This Time I almost labeled this post off-topic since our purpose here is to discuss how to use Revolution. But I decided on balance that it affects everyone here, so I left off the [OT]. I've just posted a blog entry at http://www.eclecticity.com/.3c66aaec that I believe should

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dan Shafer wrote: And if you haven't yet seen Writely, I suggest you check it out; the day of the service- based word processor is soon to be here. I did. One word: Eeewww. :) As for the getting illustrators to draw in a web browser, or anyone else to let Microsoft force them to hand

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-09 Thread Dan Shafer
Andre Actually, my blog accommodates arbitrarily large posts and comments, but it's fine that you reply here. On Nov 9, 2005, at 4:10 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: (by the way, where is your RSS feed?) On the left side of the page there's a large orange XML button that will get you my

RE: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-09 Thread MisterX
We have the dreamcard player which is the most advanced and friendly thing ever. Before the dreamcard player, I used REBOL and REBOL had a browser plugin which was nice, there was also another solution called CURL, even Squeak could load modules on demand and be very user friendly. Even

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-09 Thread Chipp Walters
Dan Shafer wrote: The fact that one such effort failed -- or even that a bunch of such efforts failed -- is irrelevant in the face of the new market realities. Particularly the ad supported software model is one that I think has a tremendous amount of potential to be disruptive. I hope

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-09 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Dan, You of course know, I'm with Richard and Andre on this. Perhaps even further left of them. My experience with Application Service Providers tell me it's very difficult to persuade the enterprise to take advantage of such technologies, especially from outside the firewall. And if

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-09 Thread Chipp Walters
MisterX wrote: Andre, you are very right but a dreamcard application can be just as unsafe or malignous as any spyware or trojan. Ajax is supposed to be safe and im sure many industry standards will evolve to support that. It has been a requirement for Java, javascript, I don't see it

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-09 Thread Mark Wieder
Dan- Wednesday, November 9, 2005, 4:16:42 PM, you wrote: There is no necessary connection between where data is and where the app is. That's just today's temporary model. That may be true, but according to UNESCO's 3 November report on Knowledge versus Information Societies 11 percent of the

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-09 Thread xavier . bury
Chipp said MisterX wrote: Andre, you are very right but a dreamcard application can be just as unsafe or malignous as any spyware or trojan. Ajax is supposed to be safe and im sure many industry standards will evolve to support that. It has been a requirement for Java,

Re: The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

2005-11-09 Thread Judy Perry
Chipp, Amen! Judy On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Chipp Walters wrote: Programs like Claris Impact, Claris CAD, MORE, the old versions of Flash which were easy to script, MacWrite, MacPaint and MacDraw. Some of these STILL have no equal (imo, mostly thanks to the illegal efforts of MS). That's where