On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 09:35 -0700, Eric Jensen wrote: > I agree with you with those types of applications, in fact I think that > would be really swank. But what about the more complex applications > like video games, advanced multimedia, etc? I'd definately run some > like THE at work if it functioned the way you described, but I can't > really see how it would work for me at home with all the DVD, > multimedia, and high end games I run. Unless I had one beefy machine > anyway or my own cluster farm. I would so love to zoom out my video > game to a picture-in-picture size and work on another project. THE is > definately something to drool over, no argument on that.
Multimedia is easy, actually. Multimedia is just another form of a document (compound document) with internal smarts to handle interaction. The document is the application. A simple example of this is a flash document. It can be entirely self-contained (or point to other things). So I don't think multimedia would have any problem fitting into the paradigm I've described. DVDs aren't a problem. Even movie editing isn't really a problem. Realize that some things we think of as applications can really just be described as tools and frameworks that can hold the documents. A video-editing system could be the same thing. I mean in real life we need a desk to hold documents on. Plus tools to work with them. While this can be described by an application, I believe it can be also described from the data's pov as tools that are automatically available anytime you need to work with a movie. As for games, well, they don't really fit into our current paradigms of computer use or UIs anyway, so nothing need change. I agree that zooming out of a game and checking on our other work would be fun. > > Eric Jensen > .===================================. > | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | > | Don't Fear the Penguin. | > | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | > `===================================' -- .===================================. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `==================================='
