[BNM] Netscape to be officially retired.

[wayne]

I thought gears wasn't that great because there were no clear
definitions for the end user of what is available offline and what
isn't. Kind of gives that 'half baked' feeling. You can have x offline
but not z and that's because of blahblahblah <what end users hear at
that juncture>. Kind of came across as a nice idea but one that would
probably be abandoned at some point in the future because the 20% it's
not able to cater for is the 80% people want it to cater for. A bit of a
quick fix, and a patchy one at that, not a solution to the real problem.

It's kind of annoying that a product would get such a high profile and
warm welcome purely because googles' marketing provides them the facade
of being the peoples giant and we all love google. People instantly
adopt pretty much whatever they spawn - mind - having said that, Android
is getting a mixed bag - hmmm.

In my view SL was a far greater advance in the use of tech. But that's
just my opinion :)

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-----Original Message-----
From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
[mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of paul perrin
Sent: 01 January 2008 22:41
To: Brighton New Media
Subject: Re: [BNM] Netscape to be officially retired.

Gears is certainly getting a high profile.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7147804.stm


On 31/12/2007, Dave Phelan <dave.phelan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 31, 2007 12:46 AM, paul perrin <paul at idltd.com> wrote:
> > Anyway - with the advent of silverlight, browsers are history.
> >
> > Local/Remote/OnLine/Offline - all irrelevant, an app is an app, the
user
> > doesn't need to know or care how it is implemented - one interface
shall
> > bind them all.
>
> Oh, so it's like google gears, except for IE only?
> (showing my ignorance here)
>
> Dave Ph
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