Comments on: The Future of Applications http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/03/22/the-future-of-applications/ The official AllPeers blog Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:17:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Nysa http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/03/22/the-future-of-applications/#comment-308747 Nysa Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:36:21 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/03/22/the-future-of-applications/#comment-308747 You write very well. You write very well.

]]> By: Matt http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/03/22/the-future-of-applications/#comment-210806 Matt Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:41:41 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/03/22/the-future-of-applications/#comment-210806 Skierpage, there's a good chance we'll see more of this in Firefox 3 thanks to the new -app switch (see http://browsing.justdiscourse.com/2008/01/29/the-runtime-wars-aka-xulrunners-exaggerated-demise/). Skierpage, there’s a good chance we’ll see more of this in Firefox 3 thanks to the new -app switch (see http://browsing.justdiscourse.com/2008/01/29/the-runtime-wars-aka-xulrunners-exaggerated-demise/).

]]> By: skierpage http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/03/22/the-future-of-applications/#comment-210664 skierpage Sun, 23 Mar 2008 06:09:11 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/03/22/the-future-of-applications/#comment-210664 The blessing/curse of Firefox is that enables all five kinds of apps, and Mozilla has little information explaining any of it except for Firefox extensions. I'm still confused whether someone running Firefox 3 will be able to do a 1-click download of a XULRunner "Webified desktop app". All the XULRunner-based apps ship their own runtime instead of relying on Firefox 3, and I agree with Matt's post that any .exe install is a big negative. The blessing/curse of Firefox is that enables all five kinds of apps, and Mozilla has little information explaining any of it except for Firefox extensions.

I’m still confused whether someone running Firefox 3 will be able to do a 1-click download of a XULRunner “Webified desktop app”. All the XULRunner-based apps ship their own runtime instead of relying on Firefox 3, and I agree with Matt’s post that any .exe install is a big negative.

]]> By: Javier Marti http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/03/22/the-future-of-applications/#comment-56038 Javier Marti Mon, 09 Apr 2007 03:48:41 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/03/22/the-future-of-applications/#comment-56038 Wow. A variation of this article on applications should be featured in our website! I am Javier, the founder of Trendirama.com, the fastest growing community of amateur writers writing about The Future of everything. I would like to invite you and your readers to join us and write an article there. It'll give you more visibility, and since you wrote most of it already, it'll be easy for you. You only have to answer a few questions within the article, that will make it even more powerful and interesting. This questions give readers concentrated information to readers, and make the articles more valuable. Join us! Best regards Javier Marti http://trendirama.com Wow. A variation of this article on applications should be featured in our website!
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]]> By: Zvi Schreiber http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/03/22/the-future-of-applications/#comment-55046 Zvi Schreiber Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:25:20 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/03/22/the-future-of-applications/#comment-55046 Loved your insights. We actually came to a similar conclusion betting on webified apps, and on the Flash player and have developed <a href="http://G.ho.st" rel="nofollow">G.ho.st</a> (the Global hosted operating system - ) to provide a Web operating system for such apps. This brings the same conveniences of an offline operating system - a single desktop, single file system, single sign-in. Also we too chose the Flash environment for <a href="http://G.ho.st" rel="nofollow">G.ho.st</a> although we might move to Ajax if that environment matures enough... Zvi Zvi Loved your insights. We actually came to a similar conclusion betting on webified apps, and on the Flash player and have developed G.ho.st (the Global hosted operating system - ) to provide a Web operating system for such apps. This brings the same conveniences of an offline operating system - a single desktop, single file system, single sign-in. Also we too chose the Flash environment for G.ho.st although we might move to Ajax if that environment matures enough…

Zvi

Zvi

]]> By: Alpa http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/03/22/the-future-of-applications/#comment-54778 Alpa Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:56:19 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/03/22/the-future-of-applications/#comment-54778 Hi Matthew, You have a very cool blog here…loved the content. U know there is an awesome opportunity for people like you who have ur own blogs n sites…I came across this site called Myndnet.com…it’s a platform for people to buy and sell IT related information. and everytime you sell some information you get paid for it…Good money for people like us in the IT domain. Here the link http://www.myndnet.com/login.jsp?referral=alpa83&channel=UZ Sign up is free…check it out… You can contact me at my id here for more questions : barot.alpa@gmail.com Cheers Alpa Hi Matthew,

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]]> By: Gurudatt Shenoy http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/03/22/the-future-of-applications/#comment-54631 Gurudatt Shenoy Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:11:04 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/03/22/the-future-of-applications/#comment-54631 This is an awe inspiring article and for which I have been waiting to read for a long time. I agree with the context and the content of the article. More so because it rhymes with our own efforts at NetAlter, where we plan to develop applications that offer rich/thin/smart client features and platform independent. In addition, we aim to provide the SOA infrastructure for fostering applications as web services rather than standalone solutions. NetAlter also plans to form a grid using advanced P2P technology which will enable developers to develop grid enabled applications and deploy them over the netalter network. I am personally really excited because, regardless of who succeeds, the future is in distributed computing. This is an awe inspiring article and for which I have been waiting to read for a long time. I agree with the context and the content of the article. More so because it rhymes with our own efforts at NetAlter, where we plan to develop applications that offer rich/thin/smart client features and platform independent. In addition, we aim to provide the SOA infrastructure for fostering applications as web services rather than standalone solutions. NetAlter also plans to form a grid using advanced P2P technology which will enable developers to develop grid enabled applications and deploy them over the netalter network.

I am personally really excited because, regardless of who succeeds, the future is in distributed computing.

]]> By: Sanford http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/03/22/the-future-of-applications/#comment-54237 Sanford Sat, 24 Mar 2007 14:13:40 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/03/22/the-future-of-applications/#comment-54237 A terrific article. I am teaching a class that is based on the foundations of this - in terms of emerging paradigms - in New York City. This is excellent food for thought. A terrific article. I am teaching a class that is based on the foundations of this - in terms of emerging paradigms - in New York City. This is excellent food for thought.

]]> By: Dan http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/03/22/the-future-of-applications/#comment-54226 Dan Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:44:35 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/03/22/the-future-of-applications/#comment-54226 I'm so glad you posted this article. I've had the same thoughts or feelings for a couple years. It just looks like each one of these big tech companies is looking to the same thing, but they are all coming from different angles. I got excited when I first found out about XULRunner and just dreamed of the possibilities. That's why I came to find out about AllPeers, even before your private beta, because I knew you were on to something. I have never been able to see in words what seems to be happening with the "future of applications" and it seems you nailed it down well. I believe the answer is there, but it's just waiting to be found. I’m so glad you posted this article. I’ve had the same thoughts or feelings for a couple years. It just looks like each one of these big tech companies is looking to the same thing, but they are all coming from different angles.

I got excited when I first found out about XULRunner and just dreamed of the possibilities. That’s why I came to find out about AllPeers, even before your private beta, because I knew you were on to something.

I have never been able to see in words what seems to be happening with the “future of applications” and it seems you nailed it down well. I believe the answer is there, but it’s just waiting to be found.

]]> By: mawrya http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/03/22/the-future-of-applications/#comment-54054 mawrya Fri, 23 Mar 2007 01:58:34 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2007/03/22/the-future-of-applications/#comment-54054 I would agree, XULRunner looks like an ace up the sleeve. Why more work isn't put into it I don't understand. Songbird, Joost, Komodo, lots of "XUL Darkmatter", should make it clear that a small, cross-platform, web-standards-powered, client-based platform is what app developers want to build on. Firefox can be that platform, but XULRunner seems like a better approach. I mean, you can build Firefox extensions that don't require you to open "Firefox the Browser", though a firefox.exe will show up in a listing of the processes running on your computer. I suppose that XULRunner will eventually come to fruition, it just seems like everyone else in the market, except maybe Adobe, is fumbling around in the dark with their pants down, so NOW would be a good time to get ahead of the other horses. Who else has support for XHTML, SVG, Javascript + JSLib features, XForms, CSS, XBL, and XUL, with built-in facilities like automatic app updates and spell-checking? Its a rapid application development platform a la mode. I would agree, XULRunner looks like an ace up the sleeve. Why more work isn’t put into it I don’t understand. Songbird, Joost, Komodo, lots of “XUL Darkmatter”, should make it clear that a small, cross-platform, web-standards-powered, client-based platform is what app developers want to build on.

Firefox can be that platform, but XULRunner seems like a better approach. I mean, you can build Firefox extensions that don’t require you to open “Firefox the Browser”, though a firefox.exe will show up in a listing of the processes running on your computer. I suppose that XULRunner will eventually come to fruition, it just seems like everyone else in the market, except maybe Adobe, is fumbling around in the dark with their pants down, so NOW would be a good time to get ahead of the other horses.

Who else has support for XHTML, SVG, Javascript + JSLib features, XForms, CSS, XBL, and XUL, with built-in facilities like automatic app updates and spell-checking? Its a rapid application development platform a la mode.

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