On 2 May 2007, at 9:12, Alan Macdougall wrote: > I agree, it is VERY cool. I thought of Tracks immediately when I read > the notice this morning too. Anyone writing a rails app at the moment > (and who isn't?!) will be having palpitations at the thoughts of the > now vastly expanded audience for their app...
Yes :-) > On 2/05/2007, at 9:34 AM, Luke Melia wrote: > >> Far out!!! This is very cool. >> >> How do we decide how much time to spend on this versus the next >> release? > > I don't know what's in the next release (bsag's movie looks good > though). I'm thinking Slingshot does bring a quite different emphasis > - for new people downloading it, it'll may well be a desktop app > first and foremost. This is a different proposition than a web app, > and to make a success of this aspect of it, it's possible that we > need to think a bit more about what this really means. For example, > desktop app users will have different expectations than web app users > about how to use it, which may suggest UI and other changes. That's almost certainly true. The drag and drop capabilities particularly lend themselves to new kinds of data integration. > Unfortunately I can't think of concrete examples right now. But if > bsag and Luke and the other contributors are keen to try Slingshot, > then my suggestion would be to first push out a stable release > containing all the new goodies... then some prototyping of the > updated stable version Tracks on Slingshot and observing how others > are using Slingshot with *their* web apps. This is ground-shifting > stuff, and maybe an extra step or two now will lead to World > Domination later. :-) I'm not clear whether you mean putting out a prototype of Tracks on Slingshot publicly, but that's what I'd like to do. The best way to get feedback on what we should do with it would be to put it out there in people's hands, let them play with it and see what they come up with. As long as we make it clear that it *is* a prototype, it would be the fastest way to make progress, and would require almost no extra work. > It does also suggest some variations on the hosted-Tracks model, > whereby new users could download the app, start using it locally... > and the first act of syncing creates the hosted, web-based version of > Tracks on a server. Alternatively, the user starts with the hosted > version, but at any time can have a "take me home" link where they > can download a version to use offline, complete with data and the > ability to sync back. Yes, that would be very cool! cheers, bsag -- but she's a girl - the weblog of a female geek http://www.rousette.org.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Tracks-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rousette.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/tracks-discuss
