Comments inline. Sent from my iPad
On 2010-04-07, at 11:13 AM, Gregg Wonderly <[email protected]> wrote: Stuart Charlton wrote: > I think there is plenty of room for improvement, but the Web is a much > more "assembled" set of services than it was not even 2 years ago. > Think about how many sites have a "share this!" section on them that a > couple years back was "send an email" but now is Facebook, Twitter, > Myspace, Reddit, Digg, Livejournal, Wave, etc.... Or how many sites I > can use my Facebook account to log in to. Or how TripIt consolidates > all my travel points programs for me via mashup.. Yes, but think about how "general" it would be if the "content from the server" didn't have to be "programmed" to contain these "hyper-link" just so that I could click on them to get that "Feature". The iPad/iPhone model shows that "small simple" apps for "doing one thing" are much easier to get right, and get people interested in, then the "all shiny do everything app" of old. I do not believe this is a valid conclusion. The vast majority of applications one uses on the iPad are web apps via Safari, only a handful are native experiences, and these are only beneficial if they are attempting to do something innovative with multitouch. The browsers try to be the "all shiny do everything app" by supporting HTML standards. They then limit what can happen because the "server" is completely in charge of the user experience. For good reason. Do you feel more productive when you have five windows open and can click between them and copy and paste and use each application for a "task", or do you feel more productive clicking through 5 links and 4 "back" buttons trying to find the user interface component that you saw a few clicks ago that might be the one you need to use (let alone the "do you want to submit this form again" prompts that you have to keep clicking on)? The latter, though I often have many browser windows open. It's interesting how bad the web experience is getting as people are dead set on making one application/paradigm do everything... Whats bad about it? I seriously have no idea what you are talking about. The web experience is, if anything, improving rapidly. cheers Stu __________________________________________________________________ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/
