On 3-Jan-06, at 12:07 PM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
If it is a Gnot-thingy and it is only connecting to Google, why would
they muck with AJAX when they can use a file protocol?
User-base and user-acceptability.
The user base comes from people already running AJAX boxes.
User acceptability comes from addressing a key shortcoming of Gnot.
I like Gnot --- I don't think Rob has gotten nearly the recognition
from the HCI community on this interface breakthrough and interfaces-
for-programmers in general --- but I continue to doubt that the
public is ready to put all their files on a remote server without
being able to get to them when the umbilicus is severed. Servers
make people anxious; by adding local disk Google can ease that while
still mirroring people's data on their network/computer. Gmail was
just the start of that particular slippery slope.
Paul
