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Haha! Well, I don't know how much we have to worry about production oriented software disappearing. From what I see, the web has caused a shift in the product

by nerme 16y ago

Haha! Well, I don't know how much we have to worry about production oriented software disappearing. From what I see, the web has caused a shift in the production of cultural content, away from centralized media industries to something resembling cottage industry. Wouldn't there be a rise in production oriented software to meet the demands of creators needing better, faster, and easier tools? Let's face it, the web is never going to take over for production oriented software. People will need to be squeezing every last calculation out of their hardware while they're making things and they need feedback without delay. You couldn't work in Illustrator with a 50ms delay, so where do you draw the line for what is computed client-side and what on the server? Sure, filters could be processed server-side. But complex drawings, taking up lots of RAM, constantly requiring a re-render? We don't even need to talk about server-side audio production. It's not that there aren't tools that work just as well or much better when served in the cloud, it's just that there will always need to be tools that demand to be run as close to home as possible. It seems to me that the amount of people wanting to use production oriented software is going to grow at least at the pace of consumer oriented software.

sfennell 16y ago
I think you are kind of missing what is going on with a lot of html 5 development. There is actually little need to communicate with the server with a lot of web apps. Like illustrator, look at Aviary (I think they use flash right now) but the application is in the browser but all computation happens on the client, the only communication with the server would be to save the file. I see this being the same way with audio/video etc. There is the overhead and the performance issues, but not really a delay.
- VBprogrammer 16y ago
  I hate to drag this point up again, but the most advanced HTML5/Javascript demos are a poor imitation of what could be done on the desktop 10 years ago. My personal view is that the web is good at things which are inherently communication centric. Nothing else justifies the restrictions that working within the web browser brings. Flash might be the whipping boy of internet technologies, but at least its reasonably write once. I think the thin client architecture is a paradigm that will constantly cycle in and out of fashion but never quite deliver on its promise.

by nerme 16y ago

sfennell 16y ago

I think you are kind of missing what is going on with a lot of html 5 development. There is actually little need to communicate with the server with a lot of web apps. Like illustrator, look at Aviary (I think they use flash right now) but the application is in the browser but all computation happens on the client, the only communication with the server would be to save the file. I see this being the same way with audio/video etc. There is the overhead and the performance issues, but not really a delay.

VBprogrammer 16y ago
I hate to drag this point up again, but the most advanced HTML5/Javascript demos are a poor imitation of what could be done on the desktop 10 years ago. My personal view is that the web is good at things which are inherently communication centric. Nothing else justifies the restrictions that working within the web browser brings. Flash might be the whipping boy of internet technologies, but at least its reasonably write once. I think the thin client architecture is a paradigm that will constantly cycle in and out of fashion but never quite deliver on its promise.