- From: Daniel O'Connor <daniel.oconnor@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 05:46:28 +0930
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 17:01:52 +0100, Jim Ley <jim.ley at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 21:15:32 +0930, Daniel O'Connor > <daniel.oconnor at gmail.com > wrote: > > A friend of mine showed me this web application about 15 minutes ago: > > > > http://tahpot.homeip.net/wp_blog/index.php?p=6 > > > > Demo: http://tahpot.homeip.net/projects/dm/ > > not wanting to denegrate the solution or the concept, it's good > (indeed I recently worked on a contract producing a window manager in > HTML+css+js) but I do not think it's a good example of a > web-application for the WHAT-WG - A window manager is not an > application we should be enabling, window manager authoring is far > from trivial, and a javascript UI can never know the paradigms the > user is used to in their window manager. > > Or was it some specific areas of the app framework you considered of relevance? > > Jim. > I thought it was a rather good example of a general purpose web application - this has a particular 'feel' of a desktop application which i don't typically experience in a web application. Kind of an 'imagine this if it had web apps 1.0 tabs, canvas and many other features available'. Feature of note: visual gripper for resizing integrated into statusbar. A multi-purpose statusbar for specific controls/ collections of controls would be useful imho: overriding (intercepting?) the UA's statusbar for XmlHttpRequests/ transactions between the server, as well as providing a useful place for feedback to a user. Ie, "Transaction Completed" or "Saved" -> whichever message you like to output. Enables more complex web applications that 'load' in the background; and a user can move on to other tasks (ie, logging in via an XmlHttpRequest but already starting to author content for a blog comment or somesuch.) -- http://www.ahsonline.com.au/dod/FOAF.rdf
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