tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733227.post2979886362456373069..comments2023-12-22T03:06:08.441-05:00Comments on the art of the possible: What is Mozilla?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733227.post-47424960026974785872008-04-25T03:00:00.000-04:002008-04-25T03:00:00.000-04:00By 'Google.com', I meant...Google.com - the search...By 'Google.com', I meant...Google.com - the search engine. :)<BR/><BR/>Google has lots of good and lots of bad products, but Google.com - the search engine - rocks.<BR/><BR/>As for whether or not AIR apps are rich internet apps or not - we might disagree. I thought there was general consensus that AIR apps were RIA apps - thus the acronym with the same three letters.<BR/><BR/>The adobe website certainly suggested AIR apps are RIA apps:<BR/><BR/><I>Adobe AIR is a cross-operating system runtime that lets developers combine HTML, Ajax, Adobe Flash®, and Flex technologies to deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) on the desktop.</I><BR/><BR/>So, RIAs have traditionally been strictly web-based apps, but we were just waiting for the new tools and runtimes to come out - we now have Adobe AIR, Microsoft Silverlight, and more. They're definitely desktop apps in some cases, requiring various different runtime engines to be installed on the desktop.<BR/><BR/>I'm all for RIA apps when they are browser-based, but I hate the idea of desktop software for several reasons. And I do understand that Javascript is so atrociously slow that lots of folks have decided we needed a solution. I can't blame them - I just don't want to be a cheerleader for the path that many of them chose - desktop apps. This disaster that is unfolding before us is devolution to the bad old days. Multiple desktop installs, various versions and incompatibilities, various vendors, security holes, etc. I'll stick with my browser and actually remain productive. :)Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16319342837525619844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733227.post-44586694968881372612008-04-24T19:34:00.000-04:002008-04-24T19:34:00.000-04:00I love how Google is number one on the list of sof...I love how Google is number one on the list of software that doesn't suck. Google Docs doesn't suck? Gears doesn't suck? What? I'd actually argue that most of their latest software sucks.<BR/><BR/>But anyway, I completely disagree with the article. First of all, Adobe AIR apps are NOT rich internet apps. RIAs run in the browser, AIR apps do not. Second of all, RIAs are a <I>good</I> thing. It means desktop-like applications run in the browser. How is that bad? Third, I don't understand what you're blaming Mozilla for. Just because you don't know what it is doesn't mean it's nothing. Firefox is a perfectly good browser. People <I>are</I> using it, and it <I>has</I> left Opera in the dust (with 1% market share or something).Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07010907860837667852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5733227.post-34107627544538522032008-04-22T01:56:00.000-04:002008-04-22T01:56:00.000-04:00Haha we may agree frequently on politics but I don...Haha we may agree frequently on politics but I don't think we agree on technology very often :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com