I'm still not convinced that conventional windows work inside a browser. I think it confuses the user, and makes for bloat and mess.
Yeah it's cool you can do things like emulating desktop windows, resize, drag, minimize etc, but just because you can do this, doesn't mean you should.
There's a lot to be said for keeping things clean and simple. Keep things accessible.
Agreed. I have had users suggest I use right click to open up a contextual menu on my webapp... All well and good until you're using an iPhone, or wii, or something else without a mouse.
I don't think the whole "Desktop in the Web UI" fad is good for the web.
A lot of apps that are used in the desktop could be easily ported to the web without the need of windows like this. There are other ways to do it, AJAX allows for them.
What works in the desktop doesn't necessarilly work in the web.
I agree. It seems like a lot of these web-desktop UI libraries are just reinventing X11, poorly. The web has its own tropes and idioms. The availability of performant and standards-compliant Javascript is changing what's possible, but that doesn't mean we need to just reimplement the previous paradigm.
Actually you're right about meebo. But I've used several other "Desktop on the web" websites or sites that use this paradigm and generally I think there must be another way because that doesn't really work for me.
Now imagine if those kinds of idea of decentralization were used in a modern OS for certain configurations and stuff...
That was awesome! I never believed the idea that actual applications, like work processing or something like that, could shift away from the desktop, but now I think that it actually might be possible.
I was literally open-jawed when I created a new window with the content URL of http://www.google.com, used that to search for Mocha UI, then opened another instance of Mocha UI in itself. I thought that was pretty nifty. Although useless in practice.
There is no need for pop-up windows nor MDI, it's a technical demo for the sake of a technical demo. It's no accident that the default layout contains no overlapping "windows".
Yeah it's cool you can do things like emulating desktop windows, resize, drag, minimize etc, but just because you can do this, doesn't mean you should.
There's a lot to be said for keeping things clean and simple. Keep things accessible.