Wow! put on the spot, eh? I need to learn more about all this and the way it is used. On the one hand RIAs have taken the AIR perspective whereby the rendering engine has no required wrapper and the applications run like they were standard desktop applications. In some ways this model is really interesting. In this way I would see a suite of cloud apps that I want to have integrated would create their own container ala acrobat.com where they container can house status messaging which is where Google puts status today in their apps' tabs.
But here's the gotchya. Not all apps are Gmail or Docs which are fairly independent from the "browse" experience. Apps like Kayak for example are directly connected to the global browse cloud and is searchable from 3rd parties and the like. Amazon and other stores also fit this model and have quite sophisticated applications (or might want to have them). The issues is that while the underlying technologies are the same and we have a flexible and mixed delivery system (also the same) the purpose and UI for what is being delivered requires different wrappers. So until someone gives me a grant to pay for researchers and a heck of a lot of time, I really don't have a solid ANSWER. I just think I understand and so far can articulate the problem space. And until there is a browser or browser wrapper that gives a real alternative (is this "prism?") then I'm not sure how to arrive at a real answer. -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=32535 ________________________________________________________________ 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
