Tuesday, November 09, 2004

InfoWorld: The state of rich Web apps: November 05, 2004: By Jon Udell : APPLICATION_DEVELOPMENT : APPLICATIONS : WEB_SERVICES

InfoWorld: The state of rich Web apps: November 05, 2004: By Jon Udell : APPLICATION_DEVELOPMENT : APPLICATIONS : WEB_SERVICES: ""

People want to be able to get on a system, and instantly start browsing, filling out forms, or what have you. They dont want to sit on an app and first figure out if they are connected or not. If they are not connected, they have to connect. The wait in itself is bad. Then there is the day when the server does not connect. People just dont want to deal with these things.

Further, todays rich web apps dont have the capability to save data and upload later. Maybe the server is down, maybe it is not responsive or under a lot of load. It would be cool if I could queue up data nad transfer it later. Not possible with any of the web apps that I use. Neither bloglines, blogger, or gmail. Something that might improve as web apps get more mature.

Mozilla and hypocrisy

Right, but what about the experiences that Mozilla chooses to default for users like switching to  Yahoo and making that the default upon ...