Timothy Humphrey wrote:
I find these things terribly exciting until I have to make call on a
tech that my company will INVEST in for the next 5 - 10 years.
I understand where you went with this paragraph. But, DUDE! Too much
changes in 5-10 years. 10 years ago, I was writing sites for 640x480px
and 36k connections. Back then, a dynamic site or a site that
connected to some other technology was a big deal. Back then, a cup of
coffee cost 10 cents. Come on back! Ya have to be
I realize that for our younger members, 10 yrs means half their lifetime
but in the business world it's not that much. Most of the big buyouts
driving the stock market to ridiculous heights will require a 10 yr
payback minimum (which is why they may not be such good deals - thus, if
they offer you a bunch of cash for your web site - take it!). I
actually know firms happily running DOS stuff from the late 80's. And
coffee cost about 50 cents back then - it cost 10 cents when I was a
little kid and thats like 40 yrs ago. So forget the dude stuff.
What is the right time frame to design for ? Good question but 5-10
seems pretty reasonable. Frankly on the highways we have the same issue
- does UDOT spend big dollars on a plan to put in big electronic message
signs that last 20 yrs or will cars have heads up displays on the
dashboard in 5-10 yrs ? The trick for a long lasting venture is to
build evolution into your products. This is why open standards mean so
much.
btw where is Adobe on open standards ? I'm not sure - I just read they
announced open sourcing their developer tools for Apollo I think - that
sounds good. The Flash file format is publicly available thus we have
Open Lazslo. Adobe was the first to offer a SVG plug-in - good, but
they have since abandoned it - boo! embrace, extend, extinguish (:
BTW: there is now a new open source SVG plug-in for IE, Renesis, as a
replacement for the ASV.
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