Hi Vishal, A lot of the work we've done here at Picnik.com has been to ensure that our app is a good web citizen. Meaning, back and forward buttons do in fact navigate as expected, users can in fact create bookmarks to specific tools, and perhaps most importantly, the app does everything it possibly can to fit inside of a single, resizable web browser window. That last bit has proven crucial, especially in a lot of our third-party integrations. Facebook, for instance, only gives us 640px across to work in.
In terms of basic UI controls (sliders, input fields), we haven't seen any point to reinventing things. The main thing to keep in mind, though, is that these controls will need to work cross browsers and more importantly cross OS (unlike a pure desktop app that would likely adopt the system's controls) so they need to be very recognizable as what they are. The default Flex skin is pretty awful in this respect. Outside of the web browser vs desktop shell, an offline version of Picnik probably wouldn't change much. Granted, in our case we've already got a well-established online app, but why force people to re-learn things? With Flex and AIR, we've got some wonderful opportunities to achieve a level of consistency between desktop and web that hasn't been possible before. Best of luck, -peter -- www.picnik.com blog.picnik.com Vishal Iyer wrote: > Michael, > > I totally agree, these are the technical decisions that our dev team is > making. Photoshop won't be an online app in the near future, but there are > basic image editing programs that are. > > I was asking from a IxD perspective (conceptually too). Say you're designing > an image editing tool that will be distributed both online and as an > installable s/w. Assuming there are no technical limitations, would they > behave any differently from each other? > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
