Have I ever seen a bunch of google links that talk a lot of smack, but that don't really deliver anything of substance? Why, yes I have, hahaha :D! Seriously, though, I know there have been quite a few attempts over the years to do things like this in our browsers, but the technology has only caught up to the "dreams" over the last couple years. I think it's really taken a massive undertaking like the V8 project to allow things like this to become truly viable. Anyway, the entire concept of a clean, intuitive browser based "operating system" is something that traditional online content providers (based on link clicking ad revenue) should be positively petrified of.
The entire business model of the current Web is that there be an incomprehensible array of sites, each with incomprehensible interfaces, that reduces each one of us to rabid, slobbering link clickers. From what I've seen of the recent crop of Google IO videos on youtube, there are some real efforts to try to inject some sanity in our online experiences. But Google is not bigger than the entire universe of web developers who are each beholden to the profit motives of the corporations that they work for. We know that the Web is an ugly mess. The entire problem at hand is how to go about locating remote resources. Currently, we type text strings into input boxes, and are met with thousands and millions of choices. And even when we do find the "best" site to help us out, there is often very little help in deciphering how to navigate the thing. But we all know how to navigate our own native operating systems, because we collectively have a decades long history of doing this. There is just something about windows, icons, and folders that just "makes sense" to us in a very basic way. Now, with this browser based OS concept in full throttle, we can start thinking about organizing the remote resouces that are most important to us in highly comprehensible ways. Then, once the organization makes sense, we can actually start to reason about them, and then develop truly semantic interfaces (APIs) into their content. I mean, all of Google's talk of tomorrow's cutting edge web applications is great and all, but if the problem of locating them persists, then it is really all for naught. We really need to begin thinking about the Web at a higher level than just one-to-one mappings between HTTP URLs and pages of HTML content. On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 8:17:14 PM UTC-4, Rick Waldron wrote: > > Dennis, > > Have you ever seen this? > https://www.google.com/search?q=webos+erik+arvidsson > > -Rick > > On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Dennis Kane wrote: > > I was thinking of just responding to this old > thread<https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/nodejs/bEhSbsm24Y4>, > > in which I talk about the browser based Desktop that I've been working on, > but the new thing I've been doing for the past week is so superior that I > thought it deserved a completely new thead. By the way, I know this forum > is all about server side Javascript, but there is not really any serious > place one can go on the web that talks about the client side. Besides, > with socket.io & websockets... I don't really make much of a distinction > between client and server anymore. I just know that there's no reason to > do a document.getElementById() call in node :) > > This new thing is a totally shocking clone of OS X. I knew I was going to > have to start over from the ground up, because my previous code base was so > sh*tty, haha! I have really been concentrating on getting a nice, tight > little API that developers will positively drool over. I don't want to > make this thing publicly available for many reasons... but you can check > out a youtube vid (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq_W19QokXk) that shows > it in action, and I still have my same old crappy prototype online at > http://luvluvluv.info. Well, hopefully this is proof that I am able to > do some cool stuff, and hopefully summa yous will want to start being my > friend now, LOL!!! > > And get this... the current, uncompressed js file size is only 54kb! > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] <javascript:> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] <javascript:> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
