On Nov 13, 2005, at 11:12 PM, Graham Samuel wrote:
I want to know, are we looking at a 'paradigm shift' or an addition
to the spectrum of possible app technologies or what?
AJAX generalizes to this: an engine stored on the user's computer
accessing program code and data from a server on the internet. The
engine is (supposed to be) general enough to support a broad spectrum
of applications.
Now note the similarity -- Revolution can be used as: an engine
stored on the user's computer accessing program code and data from a
server on the internet.
The advantageous differences are:
AJAX -- there isn't just one engine: multiple web browsers supported,
some open source.
AJAX -- the engines are on just about every modern computer.
Revolution -- a reasonably complete set of UI widgets.
Revolution -- a more application-like interface: menus, command-keys,
etc.
Sort of a wash, depending on whether you need this, and whether you
trust the application creator:
Revolution -- data and code can be more easily stored on the user's
computer, during and between sessions.
AJAX -- applications can be used more freely without worrying about
the security of information on your hard drive.
Anyone who can think of other _general_ differences between web
applications and Revolution applications, feel free to add them. But
apart from what I've listed above, I don't see much difference,
really. Not that what I listed isn't significant, just that I think
web apps are simply browsers moving toward Rev's functionality. It'll
be interesting as they work toward persistent data. It'll be _really_
interesting when someone ships a browser that supports widgets, or
lets you override its menus.
What would be _most_ interesting would be if something like Ken's
StackRunner managed to be classified as a web browser, got publicity
like Firefox (or even Flock: www.flock.com), and achieved 10%
penetration in the world at large. Then we could pressure Google to
port gmail. It would only take, what, about a week? ;-)
gc
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