Well, I don't know how much we have to worry about production oriented software disappearing.
From what I see, the web has caused a shift in the production of cultural content, away from centralized media industries to something resembling cottage industry. Wouldn't there be a rise in production oriented software to meet the demands of creators needing better, faster, and easier tools?
Let's face it, the web is never going to take over for production oriented software. People will need to be squeezing every last calculation out of their hardware while they're making things and they need feedback without delay.
You couldn't work in Illustrator with a 50ms delay, so where do you draw the line for what is computed client-side and what on the server? Sure, filters could be processed server-side. But complex drawings, taking up lots of RAM, constantly requiring a re-render?
We don't even need to talk about server-side audio production.
It's not that there aren't tools that work just as well or much better when served in the cloud, it's just that there will always need to be tools that demand to be run as close to home as possible.
It seems to me that the amount of people wanting to use production oriented software is going to grow at least at the pace of consumer oriented software.
I am not sure what "HTML 5" has to do with analytics software though. I usually don't need video or crazy mouse capabilities when doing statistical analysis.
This "death of desktop" talk has been around a long time, and we'll rinse-repeat until we're blue in the face, but this just isn't the case at all.
HTML5 will be the death of Flash and Silverlight as we know these products today. That doesn't mean the product by name won't exist (think jQuery-esque like platforms for HTML5), it will just change forms.
I almost never use drag-and-drop for anything because it only works if my windows are arranged just so.
I'd be curious to know how normal this is. Maybe if a lot of websites implement it, we'll be able to get some real stats on how often it actually gets used.
In Mac OS X drag-and-drop is convenient even with small screen sizes because of "spring-loaded" folders and Dock icons, so you don't need a special arrangement of windows. I often use it by dragging an item into a Dock icon, pressing Space (or waiting a second), and then dragging on the window once it opens.
[+] [-] lanstein|16 years ago|reply
[+] [-] dthakur|16 years ago|reply
- Matlab/Mathematica - Photoshop - Blender - America's Army - OneNote - LinqPad - ...
(bring on the pain)
[+] [-] nerme|16 years ago|reply
Well, I don't know how much we have to worry about production oriented software disappearing.
From what I see, the web has caused a shift in the production of cultural content, away from centralized media industries to something resembling cottage industry. Wouldn't there be a rise in production oriented software to meet the demands of creators needing better, faster, and easier tools?
Let's face it, the web is never going to take over for production oriented software. People will need to be squeezing every last calculation out of their hardware while they're making things and they need feedback without delay.
You couldn't work in Illustrator with a 50ms delay, so where do you draw the line for what is computed client-side and what on the server? Sure, filters could be processed server-side. But complex drawings, taking up lots of RAM, constantly requiring a re-render?
We don't even need to talk about server-side audio production.
It's not that there aren't tools that work just as well or much better when served in the cloud, it's just that there will always need to be tools that demand to be run as close to home as possible.
It seems to me that the amount of people wanting to use production oriented software is going to grow at least at the pace of consumer oriented software.
[+] [-] snewe|16 years ago|reply
http://www.sagemath.org/ http://www.monkeyanalytics.com/
I am not sure what "HTML 5" has to do with analytics software though. I usually don't need video or crazy mouse capabilities when doing statistical analysis.
[+] [-] chipsy|16 years ago|reply
[+] [-] sraybell|16 years ago|reply
HTML5 will be the death of Flash and Silverlight as we know these products today. That doesn't mean the product by name won't exist (think jQuery-esque like platforms for HTML5), it will just change forms.
That's my guess anyways.
[+] [-] abstractbill|16 years ago|reply
I'd be curious to know how normal this is. Maybe if a lot of websites implement it, we'll be able to get some real stats on how often it actually gets used.
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