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janinewallaceOct 19, 2010
about time!
Closed AccountOct 20, 2010
Stop calling computer programs "aps" god damn it!
enantiodromiaOct 20, 2010
I assume you mean "apps". What's the problem with saying this? Saying "program" seems very dated to me, and conjures up images of punch cards and tape drives.
'Programmers' 'develop' 'applications' which 'users' use. At least this is how we use the terms in Silicon Valley. Maybe the jargon hasn't been updated elsewhere yet.
Closed AccountOct 20, 2010
Fine...they are applications if you want to change everything becuase YOU consider programs to be dated. However, they ARE programs.
agmlauncherOct 20, 2010
And the difference between these and extensions/addons is??
bugmenot2Oct 20, 2010
These can run in more than one browser and they can be paid apps.
teqqlesOct 20, 2010
Not to mention the use of features like notifications, I like the idea, we'll see how well it is adopted though but seeing as you can "activate" this functionality through simple meta data on your website I expect it'll be used in the wild quite quickly.
atomic1fireOct 20, 2010
Extensions are a sort of halfway point between the browser and the app and in some cases, add certain functionality to the browser itself.
It looks like extensions will be browser specific, whereas open web apps will be browser neutral, e.g, Chrome has it's own ui and choice in design, whereas firefox is more customizable, extensions made for firefox might not always be compatible with chrome, and vice versa especially factoring XUL, but a open web app might only be a standard application with some special meta tag that allows it to slightly integrate with the browser with no effort.
jclark707Oct 20, 2010
Firefox is the best..
markusbechtelOct 20, 2010
Agree. THE best.
echootaOct 20, 2010
I'm blindsided by this, but now that I see where they're going with it, it's a very interesting concept. I can see this as a potential paradigm change similar to how virtualization changed the relationship between hardware and its OS.
More so than ever, platforms (MS, Apple, Linux) will become never-irrelevant (things have to run on something, right?), but less of an issue for the end-user.
This seems very disruptive. Wow! That only question is, how much can be done?
dxprogOct 20, 2010
Doesn't change the fact that Chrome slaughters Firefox in performance and not having memory leaks.