Hi gang,
> I fully agree that in a world where the "Network" is becoming more
> important than the local client, a generic approach for the user to
> manage connections of all kinds will simplify user experience
> (and help reducing code duplication and bloat).
About a year ago I was looking into an area they were terming "WebOS". The
notion was that for rich applications, you need some kind of lightweight
platform pre-installed on the desktop from which you could serve up
applications written against it (presumably in JS or PHP or whatever). One
platform service was of course a communication framework, since generally
some or all of your data is going to be on the server. This included
synchronization as a first class platform service so you can treat the
local storage as a cache or offline access. There were a number of players
in this area (approx. 4-5 companies). I don't the current state.
At the time, my reaction was, "Hmm, we could be one of those!". We
essentially have all the components they talked about, though not
integrated to the same degree, and with p2 we have a first class
provisioning route.
I view this issue as being intimately tied to the flexible resource model
topic. For real data mobility, instead of assuming that resources map to
files as we do now, we should assume they map to URIs, served up from
anywhere (e.g. a MySQL database), with local proxies providing anything
from summary information (name, size), enough say for navigation, to the
full contents for editing purposes. Current desktop services such as
Search then need to be changed since the number of resource can be huge,
and searchable content could be remote.
So this is a very different notion of "the platform" than what we have
now. A pretty cool one though!
There a more thoughts squirreled away in my brain somewhere ...
Regards,
Kevin "Not Just About Pretty UIs" McGuire
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