Comments on: Anything You Can Do On Desktops, I Can Do (On The Web) Meta http://onwebapps.com/anything-you-can-do-on-desktops-i-can-do-on-the-web-meta/ Random musings on Webapps. Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:28:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Shanti’s Dispatches - Heroku: Battles App Created in ~ 1 hour, all in a web browser http://onwebapps.com/anything-you-can-do-on-desktops-i-can-do-on-the-web-meta/#comment-7867 Shanti’s Dispatches - Heroku: Battles App Created in ~ 1 hour, all in a web browser Sun, 18 Nov 2007 08:56:55 +0000 http://onwebapps.com/anything-you-can-do-on-desktops-i-can-do-on-the-web-meta/#comment-7867 [...] Heroku is pretty much the exact idea that I blogged about in February. [...] [...] Heroku is pretty much the exact idea that I blogged about in February. [...]

]]> By: Jatinder http://onwebapps.com/anything-you-can-do-on-desktops-i-can-do-on-the-web-meta/#comment-22 Jatinder Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:34:54 +0000 http://onwebapps.com/anything-you-can-do-on-desktops-i-can-do-on-the-web-meta/#comment-22 Ning is one of such applications, which serves both techies and non-techies. As you rightly say, for techies these websites will take away the flexiblity. certainly its doable but I wonder how easy/difficult would it be to develop application with Ajaxy features for example. Ning is one of such applications, which serves both techies and non-techies.
As you rightly say, for techies these websites will take away the flexiblity. certainly its doable but I wonder how easy/difficult would it be to develop application with Ajaxy features for example.

]]> By: Shanti Braford http://onwebapps.com/anything-you-can-do-on-desktops-i-can-do-on-the-web-meta/#comment-21 Shanti Braford Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:22:08 +0000 http://onwebapps.com/anything-you-can-do-on-desktops-i-can-do-on-the-web-meta/#comment-21 Dr Nic - good point. I hadn't thought of those while writing this up actually. It seems like apps like this will suffer from one of two flaws: 1) Try too hard to abstract away all dealings with code, which you just can't do beyond a certain point if you want to allow real applications to be built. 2) Expose too much of the raw code for novices to feel comfortable jumping in. (which my idea might suffer from, since its basically a glorified web-based text editor & webapp mgmt console) Dr Nic - good point. I hadn’t thought of those while writing this up actually.

It seems like apps like this will suffer from one of two flaws:

1) Try too hard to abstract away all dealings with code, which you just can’t do beyond a certain point if you want to allow real applications to be built.

2) Expose too much of the raw code for novices to feel comfortable jumping in. (which my idea might suffer from, since its basically a glorified web-based text editor & webapp mgmt console)

]]> By: Dr Nic http://onwebapps.com/anything-you-can-do-on-desktops-i-can-do-on-the-web-meta/#comment-20 Dr Nic Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:51:06 +0000 http://onwebapps.com/anything-you-can-do-on-desktops-i-can-do-on-the-web-meta/#comment-20 There are a variety of online Form Builder apps; I guess these are the MS Access-like starting point for WYSIWYG web app development. There are a variety of online Form Builder apps; I guess these are the MS Access-like starting point for WYSIWYG web app development.

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