Comments on: Oh the irony of it all http://www.winextra.com/2007/06/02/oh-the-irony-of-it-all/ aka Steve Hodson - a cranky old fart wandering the internet causing mayhem as he goes Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:50:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Breaking Rumors, News, Truemors http://www.winextra.com/2007/06/02/oh-the-irony-of-it-all/#comment-5514 Breaking Rumors, News, Truemors Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:39:48 +0000 http://www.winextra.com/2007/06/02/oh-the-irony-of-it-all/#comment-5514 [...] applications aren’t going anywhere. Now Web 2.0 is going to the desktop. http://www.winextra.com/2007/06/02/oh-the-irony-of-it-all/ Technology no score link spread 10:39 am by [...] [...] applications aren’t going anywhere. Now Web 2.0 is going to the desktop. http://www.winextra.com/2007/06/02/oh-the-irony-of-it-all/ Technology no score link spread 10:39 am by [...]

]]> By: O’Flaherty - » Google Gears IS a step forward! http://www.winextra.com/2007/06/02/oh-the-irony-of-it-all/#comment-5389 O’Flaherty - » Google Gears IS a step forward! Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:01:18 +0000 http://www.winextra.com/2007/06/02/oh-the-irony-of-it-all/#comment-5389 [...] Steven Hodson shared the link love with me and pointed to me as being one of the folks who under Google’s magical spell which turns folks into the tech equivalent of gushing teeny boppers at a Justin Wannabake Timberlake concert! Of course because it’s from Google it is now the big darling of the tech b’sphere with posts just about everywhere waxing loving about this newest and greatest from the greatest benefactor to mankind. [...] [...] Steven Hodson shared the link love with me and pointed to me as being one of the folks who under Google’s magical spell which turns folks into the tech equivalent of gushing teeny boppers at a Justin Wannabake Timberlake concert! Of course because it’s from Google it is now the big darling of the tech b’sphere with posts just about everywhere waxing loving about this newest and greatest from the greatest benefactor to mankind. [...]

]]> By: Douglas Karr http://www.winextra.com/2007/06/02/oh-the-irony-of-it-all/#comment-5248 Douglas Karr Sun, 03 Jun 2007 00:11:22 +0000 http://www.winextra.com/2007/06/02/oh-the-irony-of-it-all/#comment-5248 I agree there is some irony in it. IMHO, it's really a browser issue since browsers will only save 2k or so of data in a cookie. In the browser wars, I'm amazed that IE or Firefox didn't simply come out with a local data store. It looks like Google Gears is doing this with Firefox: http://gears.google.com/ IE is trying to do it with Silverlight (for the life of me, I can't figure out why they just don't put it in IE and then make plugins for other browsers). Adobe is doing it with Apollo/Flex. All of them are really technologies to extend the local data store. I'm not sure that it really classifies it as a 'desktop engine'... it's really a browser storage engine that can be used to enable web applications on/offline. I don't think the purpose is to work without an internet connection. The purpose is to work efficiently with an internet connection. The innovation is that it's not browser dependent and operating system dependent. We're getting closer and closer to seamless integration between any client and a host application. That is pretty exciting! I agree there is some irony in it. IMHO, it’s really a browser issue since browsers will only save 2k or so of data in a cookie. In the browser wars, I’m amazed that IE or Firefox didn’t simply come out with a local data store.

It looks like Google Gears is doing this with Firefox: http://gears.google.com/
IE is trying to do it with Silverlight (for the life of me, I can’t figure out why they just don’t put it in IE and then make plugins for other browsers).
Adobe is doing it with Apollo/Flex.

All of them are really technologies to extend the local data store. I’m not sure that it really classifies it as a ‘desktop engine’… it’s really a browser storage engine that can be used to enable web applications on/offline. I don’t think the purpose is to work without an internet connection. The purpose is to work efficiently with an internet connection.

The innovation is that it’s not browser dependent and operating system dependent. We’re getting closer and closer to seamless integration between any client and a host application. That is pretty exciting!

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