to the point about the "web browser". Is AIR just an "invisible" web browser to specific data points or applications? Try to be flexible in your response. What I mean to say is that you are right and wrong.
I don't think the OS is the right place to do what you are thinking, but the appearance of it being part of the OS is what makes sense. What does a browser do that a platform or OS can't? Be completely hardware/vendor agnostic, no? Mozilla does this, as does AIR, JavaFX and other RIA technologies, renderers, google desktop, etc. My point is that the "browser" in my mind is still an important distinction from the OS, or someone has to win the OS wars and while I know who the winner should be, I doubt that the OSS or Microsoft would want it that way. ;-) -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=31824 ________________________________________________________________ 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
