What I realized 7 or 8 years ago, is the Internet is the new OS in which
about all application will run. I think other people around the world
are beginning to understand the change that is coming. Microsoft may
still control the OS market share today, but I believe the Internet OS
will controls the future over which most all applications must
standardize and live.
All the other OS(s) like Unix, Solaris, Mac, Linux, and Windows will
have their own version of a web server, that will offer up the
applications, but the desktop computers, laptop computers, cell phones,
ipods, and other future web clients will be standardize, so a web
application will be accessible and run in the web OS, with all the web
hardware, networks, web languages, and web standards, across the board.
This will make all the other OS(s) like Windows, Linux, Mac, and Unix
less relevant, as the web applications will perform and look the same
regardless of which of these platforms is used. The Internet, and its
tools, including the web based languages like Java, .Net, Perl, Php,
Python, Ruby, etc, and other coming languages and foundations, will
continue to evolve, so the application interface will become more
robust, and the applications can be easily accessed using whatever
platform is chosen.
Regards,
LelandJ
J. Landman Gay wrote:
Phil Davis wrote:
Hi Sarah,
Off the top of my head I don't remember, but (if you're not already
aware of it) here's a GREAT site for all kinds of HTML/JS/browser/etc
info:
http://www.quirksmode.org/
That's an interesting site, thanks for the link. He has a good article
on web applications there -- "Web Applications, Promise or Hype?" --
which fits in with some of the things recently discussed on the list
here. A partial quote:
"In order to draw users towards Web applications, they must have
clear, easily explained advantages over desktop applications—and not
all that stuff about "vendor independence" and "standards support",
either. That's tech speak. Users don't care about it.
"I feel that a purely technical focus will lead to the slavish copying
of desktop application behavior to an alien environment where it'll
lose any usability comparision. That's the same error DHTML proponents
made years ago. A Web application should be a Web application, not a
bad copy of a desktop application."
_______________________________________________
use-revolution mailing list
use-revolution@lists.runrev.com
Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription
preferences:
http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
