<blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Michael Kozakewich wrote:</span><br>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">></span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">> How many applications do we expect any one user to have open? I would</span><br>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">> imagine one would do fine on the Taskbar or in the Notification Area,</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">> like other programs, but a manager would be good if a user had a great</span><br>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">> deal of applications running at once.</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">Realistically speaking, users will soon have many applications open if we</span><br>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">make this available: Flickr, Mail, Calendar, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter,</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">BBC News, their Bank, Google Voice, ... I would expect hundreds of sites</span><br>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">to make use of such a feature.</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#500050" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 9px;"><br>
</span></font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#500050"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I have to say, I get confused by statements like this. If there are hundreds of sites that would find the feature useful, it sounds like a useful feature to have, one that fits in better with the way application writers understand to write applications. The perspectives I've heard in this thread basically say that 5 years from now, applications should be written such that there's a server in the browser, at which point I have to wonder why don't we go back to getting all the markup from the server and injecting it into the page?</span></font></div>
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