On Sep 6, 2008, at 6:59 PM, Jared Spool wrote:
Not everyone builds a sophisticated tool for manipulating artwork.
Many just build tools for manipulating customer data.
Agreed. Like I said... Photoshop Lightroom is largely an SDI model
type of application, and it's pretty intense with the rich interaction
model it follows inside the confines of SDI. If you haven't used it,
go grab the 30 day trial download to see what I mean.
But there are plenty of examples that aren't. Some light, some heavy.
Instant Messenger applications are relatively "light" apps that work a
ton better outside the SDI confines. The WebSketch product example
would as well. Many industrial strength enterprise apps would benefit
immensely from being web technology based but built outside the SDI
confines.
We also helped design an enterprise application for Agile Software
(who were acquired by Oracle last year), which is a prime example of
something that needed a multiple window environment. The application
was a document management and project workflow product where you had
to track thousands of parts that go into building physical products.
We ended up having to do a lot of custom work to make it happen so
windows could talk to each other).
There a ton of enterprise level applications that are quite simply
*begging* for such an development environment.
There's a third possibility, which is what I heard in the interview:
Chrome is a stimulus for a competitive response by the other big
browser producers. It came out that Sergei Brin/Google would
consider Chrome a success if MS IE9 adopted the core components from
the Chrome open source set.
I heard that too... but that doesn't change the "browser" paradigm, it
only really makes it more robust at the tech level, which helps it
somewhat at the interaction level, but not in the core mode it
operates. In other words, an intense, interaction rich product like
Lightroom could someday be built in that new platform with that more
robust engine, but in the end, it's *still* SDI.
--
Andrei Herasimchuk
Principal, Involution Studios
innovating the digital world
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