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The sourciest does. Obviously AJAX building styles are in the mix too, for the same reason, and Flash and AJAX are showing nice familiarity.īut it seems clear that a strong new open source competitor has emerged for Microsoft in the the rich client space, perhaps the only obvious competition from an offline data store perspective. All those Longhorn delays gave Eclipse a lot of the breathing space it needed. Where they can view source across any component. And as the Web has repeatedly shown, the richest experience doesn’t always win.
But it is an environment where tons of developers live every day. Now Ian Skerret, Eclipse marketing maven, has compiled some screen shots of Eclipse rich client apps.Įclipse RCP may be nowhere near as rich as Flash, nor have even a micro-fraction the number of users. One of my favourites is RSSOwl, which is really cool because RSS-client side aggregation is a space that needs innovation. So where all these rich client apps? Its very early days, but a nice mix of corporate and grassroots apps are emerging. Every computing revolution, by this argument, has an associated UI revolution.What is AJAX if not an approach to delivering rich user experiences? Google simplicity was another revolution in how we work with the machine, and each other.īut back to Eclipse. I think you could argue the iPod’s success was largely driven by the user user interaction model that Apple put forward, that is what makes the platform so exploively successful. Gates gets it – that is why he is focusing on Longhorn and natural language innovation so hard. Java was driven by Web apps, initially at least. These were UI, more than functional, revolutions. But punchcards, green screen, the web, client/server, Mac, Windows, were all UI revolutions framed in visual terms. You might say duh, but i am not sure the meme is completely intuitive. Its one of my pet arguments that every computing revolution has an associated UI element, as we get more and more distributed. Eclipse is a framework for everything, and when did a developer environment not drive an approach to the client, especially when it has so much cross platform widgetry? It was never going to be a tool only used by developers or operators. The thing is, Eclipse was never going to be just an IDE. In fact, i was arguing that before IBM even began its rich client work under the auspices of the Eclipse organization.
I have long argued that Eclipse was going to shake up the smart client space.
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