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Re: DotCloud.js - Access Cloud Services from the Browser

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Another entry into this space. Others include: Meteor - http://www.meteor.com/ FireBase - http://www.firebase.com Parse - https://parse.com/docs/js_guide

I see there being two, somewhat distinct, categories of players: those with a realtime-first, focus (Meteor, Firebase and, now, dotCloud.js) and those that take more of a traditional REST-based approach (Parse, StackMob, Backlift, etc.).

The later have an easier time integrating into existing client-side frameworks (Backbone, Ember, Angular, etc), since those mostly seem to be built with a REST-based model in mind, but it will be interesting to see what patterns emerge to plug push-based updates into these pull-oriented systems. For starters, I suspect we'll need the client-side frameworks to clarify the distinction between the server and client state and the source of changes. Henrik Joreteg's talk at BackboneConf[1] was good overview of this and other problems they've run into.

[1]: https://speakerdeck.com/u/henrikjoreteg/p/real-world-realtim...

Re: DotCloud.js - Access Cloud Services from the Browser

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if you close the video using the (x) on the lightbox the video disappears but you still hear the audio - you have to navigate off the page to silence it.

What browser / OS are you using? I haven't been able to reproduce it yet.

Chromium 18.0.1025.151 (Developer Build 130497 Linux) Ubuntu 12.04

plugins set to click to play

Re: DotCloud.js - Access Cloud Services from the Browser

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Another entry into this space. Others include: Meteor - http://www.meteor.com/ FireBase - http://www.firebase.com Parse - https://parse.com/docs/js_guide

Flattering that you should compare us to them, but this is an early-stage experiment, and we're not quite sure how it'll play out yet!
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