My interview at blog.Lifebeyondcode.com
Rajesh Setty has published my interview with him Behind the scenes - Dekoh; Interview with Vijay Pullur. I have talked about several topics like our history, why Dekoh?, how is it different from Adobe Apollo and Google gears, enterprise and SaaS ISV use cases for Dekoh etc. Thanks Rajesh for interviewing me and publishing [...]
Google gears - offline web applications
Google has today announced Google gears. It allows web applications to work offline. Google gears is a browser extension that can be downloaded and installed. It exposes Javascript classes which can be invoked by web applications to provide offline functionality.
While it appears cool at first look, it needs to be analyzed in detail. Here are [...]
Examples of 2 RIA approaches
Here are 2 examples of Rich Internet Applications:
eBay San Dimas Project: Provides offline functionality for eBay. Can create desktop alerts for eBay bids. Written using Adobe Apollo platform.
Dekoh Calendar: Is a desktop counterpart to Google Calendar. Allows creating desktop reminders and audio alerts for Google calendar events. Works offline and syncs events next time connected. [...]
RIA - is it “Rich Interface Application”?
Stephen O’Grady of Redmonk has written this good post Too Rich For My Taste: The RIA Q&A questioning the value of Rich Internet Applications to end users. Some of the observations are very accurate. Two of them related to Internet Applications are very important:
1. We spend more time using browser based applications than thick-client desktop applications (exceptions are developers). Browsers [...]
Adobe’s love and hate for browsers
Adobe has 2 of the most popular browser plugins (see Common plugins for Firefox). Flash is by far the best way to deliver multi-media content to web users because of 2 reasons.
1. Same user experience on all platforms and browsers
2. Ability to stream
Flash Player Penetration is 98% of Internet viewers. This is great for any [...]
