Yeah, I agree with all. I thought that it would be a good thing at the time...
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Seth Thomas Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Bluebie, Jenna > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'd like to add that I think it's an overall bad and very close to pointless >> idea, and would fit as 'bloat' and nothing more. > > It seems potentially kinda useful, but I'm not really that interested, > either. With the OP's example of a Shoes app browser written in Shoes, > I would question whether the best UI and experience is to embed the > apps for presentation anyway. The potential variety of app designs and > dimensions alone seems to make this problematic, not to mention > imposing the design of the browser app onto the embedded one. I don't > mean to discourage you, but maybe to suggest some alternate approaches > to a similar idea. I've taken this road a few times so far in getting > Shoes to do things I want. :) > > Also, fwiw, I would suggest not thinking of Shoes as trying to be like > the web. It seems to me that Shoes took some better ideas from the > web, and coming from the web I like this very much, but it's not quite > trying to *emulate* the web. I think ultimately that is good. New ways > to think are good. > > -- > Seth Thomas Rasmussen > http://greatseth.com >
