On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Michael Kozakewich wrote: > > How many applications do we expect any one user to have open? I would > imagine one would do fine on the Taskbar or in the Notification Area, > like other programs, but a manager would be good if a user had a great > deal of applications running at once.
Realistically speaking, users will soon have many applications open if we make this available: Flickr, Mail, Calendar, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, BBC News, their Bank, Google Voice, ... I would expect hundreds of sites to make use of such a feature. I have to say, I get confused by statements like this. If there are hundreds of sites that would find the feature useful, it sounds like a useful feature to have, one that fits in better with the way application writers understand to write applications. The perspectives I've heard in this thread basically say that 5 years from now, applications should be written such that there's a server in the browser, at which point I have to wonder why don't we go back to getting all the markup from the server and injecting it into the page? a