http://adamloving.com/internet-programming/javascript-and-google-gears Seattle Social Web Development Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:21:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://adamloving.com/internet-programming/javascript-and-google-gears/comment-page-1#comment-152 Mark Harris Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:51:22 +0000 http://adamloving.com/?p=289#comment-152 "However, recently I’m becoming more convinced that a combination of AJAX and browser add-ons will win." -- Interesting idea. I know Microsoft was exploring this idea in IE7, but it's a little fuzzy in how add-ons become useful to an AJAX application without getting in the way. How would you see add-ons being used in conjunction with browser code? Would the AJAX code somehow reference the addon to manipulate its UI (for example, the "online users" bar for Facebook would be embedded in the browser chrome)? Without a great deal of care, we'd have to conquer the same issues we hit with installing/removing programs with the OS itself: versioning, security, privacy, compatibility, localization, ... I get that AJAX-like functionality could one day replace desktop apps, but how do add-ons fit into the picture? “However, recently I’m becoming more convinced that a combination of AJAX and browser add-ons will win.” — Interesting idea. I know Microsoft was exploring this idea in IE7, but it’s a little fuzzy in how add-ons become useful to an AJAX application without getting in the way. How would you see add-ons being used in conjunction with browser code? Would the AJAX code somehow reference the addon to manipulate its UI (for example, the “online users” bar for Facebook would be embedded in the browser chrome)? Without a great deal of care, we’d have to conquer the same issues we hit with installing/removing programs with the OS itself: versioning, security, privacy, compatibility, localization, … I get that AJAX-like functionality could one day replace desktop apps, but how do add-ons fit into the picture?

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