[Semi-OT] Interesting article

[Marielle Lange]

Hi Geoff,

Yes, the topic is very hot. Everybody is moving in that direction:

Macromedia,  Flex:
<http://www.macromedia.com/software/flex/>

Creating applications with Mozilla:
<http://basic.mozillanews.org/mozilla_book/>

Konfabulator is now free (bought by Yahoo a week ago):
<http://www.konfabulator.com/>
For the mac users, this is the same as dashboard widgets, but cross- 
platform (pc and mac).

For a good demo of Ajax possibilities:
<http://script.aculo.us/>
<http://revolution.lexicall.org/wiki/tiki-index.php? 
page=TechnologiesJavascript>

There were good papers in the July issue of the international  
developer magazine on "web-applications":
<http://www.intldeveloper.co.uk/>

My notes on this (work in progress):
Technical discussion:
<http://revolution.lexicall.org/wiki/tiki-editpage.php? 
page=DebateWebOrStandalone>
Placed in an education context (the issue there being to design more  
interactive materials and still keep the ease of distribution of the  
web):
<http://revolution.lexicall.org/wiki/tiki-index.php? 
page=DebateWebOrStandalone>

There are two reasons for these recent technical developments. One is  
the need for better user experience on web vs desktop. The other is  
the issue of software development vs. Composition:
<http://www.ics.uci.edu/~andre/research/papers/UCIICS0218.pdf>

Revolution is probably the best solution for software composition. At  
least, that's a development environment that does today what others  
announce for tomorrow.

Best,
Marielle


> http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php
>
> It's about AJAX -- Asynchronous Javascript And XML. It talks about
> the ability to create apps like gmail and google maps, and makes an
> interesting companion piece to
>
> http://www.fourthworld.com/embassy/articles/netapps.html
>

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Marielle Lange (PhD),  Psycholinguistics, Lecturer in Psychology and  
Informatics
University of Edinburgh, UK

Homepage:  http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlange/
Lexicall project: http://lexicall.org
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