mashable.com— Everyone is talking about Apollo, the platform from Adobe that puts rich web apps on your desktop. Here are the coolest, slickest and bestest apps so far.
May 7, 2007View in Crawl 4
IMHO, apart from the fact that they can be easily decompiled, it's a pretty solid platform. It's still wearing diapers, but has great potential. Specially if they release some APIs for databases and data persistence.I'm still trying to get used to it. Coming from a .NET background.
I tried them all. All of them are pretty bad on XP (interface not very responsive). At this point a poor substitute for a .NET or WPF application. Actually, it seems to perform more poorly than recent releases of Java Swing.Its fairly early for Apollo though so I wont write them off just yet.
Ummm, didn't Java Web Start/JNLP (web applications becoming like desktop apps, ability to write to local hard drive, etc) do this like 4 or 5 years ago? I don't get all the hype or excitement. Maybe it is easier with Apollo? Sorry, if I missed all the fun...
azazel00May 7, 2007
IMHO, apart from the fact that they can be easily decompiled, it's a pretty solid platform. It's still wearing diapers, but has great potential. Specially if they release some APIs for databases and data persistence.I'm still trying to get used to it. Coming from a .NET background.
thewrenchpilotMay 7, 2007
The Mini Digg doesn't respect the default browser. It opens links in IE no matter what.
anamanamanMay 8, 2007
I tried them all. All of them are pretty bad on XP (interface not very responsive). At this point a poor substitute for a .NET or WPF application. Actually, it seems to perform more poorly than recent releases of Java Swing.Its fairly early for Apollo though so I wont write them off just yet.
fkr3May 8, 2007
Adobe are using it to make a web based version of Photoshop, so I guess it does have the capabilities to produce "real" software.
danandjanMay 8, 2007
Ummm, didn't Java Web Start/JNLP (web applications becoming like desktop apps, ability to write to local hard drive, etc) do this like 4 or 5 years ago? I don't get all the hype or excitement. Maybe it is easier with Apollo? Sorry, if I missed all the fun...
cagedogMay 18, 2007
<a class="user" href="http://labs.searchcoders.com/dashboard/demo/">http://labs.searchcoders.com/dashboard/demo/</a>