Hi, This is just a random thougth, so I appologize if 1. its in the wrong group 2. you dont like the idea
I have been in the computer game ~30 years. When html showed up I thought oh my god nroff and troff gone mad. Then people began to layer on level after level of tech to make an SGML based language behave like an application based language. So my question: 1. If the application must run in a heavy weight application (browser) that has access to a large number of GUI api's on the native machines. Why not setup a standard that exposes these API's from the browser and make the internet application run like a plugin. (similar to flash/ flex, and or silverlight) only better. Explain: Currently I write a Java like application for GWT, it transposes it to javascript and ajax. Why not interpert it into a byte code stream that runs in chrome similar to a plugin. The api's are already there, many real world app features would be easier to create for the Software as Service applications of the future. They could also make the browser far more configurable so that applications could have real desktop power if the customer so desired. Reasoning: 1. the current wild eyed love of super thin apps has now made server side and clustering and client state maintenance a real pain. Why? Can't we write chubby, relax to fit apps that maintain their own state? 2. We are always struggling to obtain what we already have on the desktop, while claiming that we have eleminated the monolithic application, only we havent, its the browser now. So admit that it is and let the browser grow. I would love to work on an open source solution that opened up a browser for this. The beauty of the GWT environment is that the code should be able to be interperted for use in either Javascript/Ajax or this streaming concept. I hope this is already underway and I am just behind the times. Why keep beating up the old SGML path, lets just break clean and get the best of both worlds. thanks for your patients. If someone is on this and could use the help of an old fart, I would love to join in or even start it. dhfair. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
