I would imagine a pure client side desktop application with possible thin url services (Not sure if I am using the correct terminology)
I would hate to drag all the browser complexity into shoes P 2008/8/27 Devyn Cairns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 >> >
