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Box.net CEO: HTML5 could kill desktop software

9 pointsby ccarpentergalmost 15 years ago

5 comments

lansteinalmost 15 years ago
Only tangentially related, but a great article on debugging PHP in vim by one of the other co-founders of box.net: <a href="http://tech.blog.box.net/2007/06/20/how-to-debug-php-with-vim-and-xdebug-on-linux/" rel="nofollow">http://tech.blog.box.net/2007/06/20/how-to-debug-php-with-vi...</a>
dthakuralmost 15 years ago
Hope some of my most used software gets ported onto this new 'HTML5 thingy' before it gets killed!<p>- Matlab/Mathematica - Photoshop - Blender - America's Army - OneNote - LinqPad - ...<p>(bring on the pain)
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sraybellalmost 15 years ago
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.<p>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.<p>That's my guess anyways.
abstractbillalmost 15 years ago
I almost never use drag-and-drop for anything because it only works if my windows are arranged <i>just so</i>.<p>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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run4yourlivesalmost 15 years ago
Just so you know, the major insurance company I'm related to is still using IE6 as its standard browser.