The Disappearing Desktop - It's Real This Time

[Dan Shafer]

Richard....

You said, quoting from your wonderful "Beyond the Browser" piece:

    "Many articles have been published extolling the
     virtues of Browser-based applications, but few
    (if any) of these were written in one...”

Beg to differ. The Winer blog post that released these articles, the  
blog post that I found that pointed me to them and my blog post were  
all written in a browser-based application. And if you haven't yet  
seen Writely, I suggest you check it out; the day of the service- 
based word processor is soon to be here.

On Nov 9, 2005, at 3:50 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> As long as folks use local data, there will be desktop apps.

There is no necessary connection between where data is and where the  
app is. That's just today's temporary model.




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Dan Shafer
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