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Re: Canvas UI Library Demo

#12

Post by ph0rque »

neilk wrote: post #10

Awesomesauce. Though I agree the world should move away from windows in the browser, frameworks like this are great too. The tabs and so on are slick. Edit: hey, it works in IE! I guess this is Canvas.IE? Is the author on news.yc?

can anyone tell if it works on ie6?

Re: Canvas UI Library Demo

#13

Post by spydez »

ph0rque wrote: post #12
neilk wrote: post #10

Awesomesauce. Though I agree the world should move away from windows in the browser, frameworks like this are great too. The tabs and so on are slick. Edit: hey, it works in IE! I guess this is Canvas.IE? Is the author on news.yc?

can anyone tell if it works on ie6?

It works in IE6.

Re: Canvas UI Library Demo

#15

Post by benbeltran »

I don't think the whole "Desktop in the Web UI" fad is good for the web.

A lot of apps that are used in the desktop could be easily ported to the web without the need of windows like this. There are other ways to do it, AJAX allows for them.

What works in the desktop doesn't necessarilly work in the web.

Re: Canvas UI Library Demo

#16

Post by palish »

axod wrote: post #9

I'm still not convinced that conventional windows work inside a browser. I think it confuses the user, and makes for bloat and mess. Yeah it's cool you can do things like emulating desktop windows, resize, drag, minimize etc, but just because you can do this, doesn't mean you should . There's a lot to be said for keeping things clean and simple. Keep things accessible.

Also keep in mind that your users may be viewing your webpage with their phone, which is one big reason to not go the desktop simulation route.

Still, it's a very cool demo.

Re: Canvas UI Library Demo

#17

Post by dhotson »

benbeltran wrote: post #15

I don't think the whole "Desktop in the Web UI" fad is good for the web. A lot of apps that are used in the desktop could be easily ported to the web without the need of windows like this. There are other ways to do it, AJAX allows for them. What works in the desktop doesn't necessarilly work in the web.

Have you ever used meebo?

It's one case where I think the metaphor works quite well.

Re: Canvas UI Library Demo

#18

Post by PieSquared »

That was awesome! I never believed the idea that actual applications, like work processing or something like that, could shift away from the desktop, but now I think that it actually might be possible.

I was literally open-jawed when I created a new window with the content URL of http://www.google.com, used that to search for Mocha UI, then opened another instance of Mocha UI in itself. I thought that was pretty nifty. Although useless in practice.

Re: Canvas UI Library Demo

#20

Post by DougBTX »

PieSquared wrote: post #18

That was awesome! I never believed the idea that actual applications, like work processing or something like that, could shift away from the desktop, but now I think that it actually might be possible. I was literally open-jawed when I created a new window with the content URL of http://www.google.com , used that to search for Mocha UI, then opened another instance of Mocha UI in itself. I thought that was pretty nif…

> Although useless in practice.

A good point. Also notable that Mocha UI did not invent the iframe, nor use it in any way unforeseen by it's inventors.

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