Re: Would Any Developers Use This?
Re: Would Any Developers Use This?
- Subject: Re: Would Any Developers Use This?
- From: Ken Tabb <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:16:58 +0100
And so it was that Andreas Monitzer said on 10/9/01 5:02 pm:
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The whole thing sounds pretty nice, however I'd go framework-only, since I
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don't see any need for a central application.
I can see both sides: having a framework lets your app look after itself.
On the other hand if people have a laptop with 2 locations, 1 fast and 1
slow connection, then if updating is always the app's responsibility,
they have to fire up every app when they log on in the fast connection
location. If there was a central service then you only have to launch /
script one thing and let it worry. Then again, a central app / service
could be used maliciously (like when all the Win98 users were worried
that MS was uploading all their info to some bigbrother.microsoft.com
machine).
Furthermore if all functionality is within the app, and the functionality
changes (eg. supporting name / passwords / serial numbers before
downloading) then all app developers using the technology need to update
their app to incorporate the new features (assuming they're all
compulsory features). If it was handled by some central service app, it
could update itself and then everyone's happy again.
So there you go, some thoughts.
Ken
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Ken Tabb
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Computer Vision / Neural Network researcher (Computer Science)
University of Hertfordshire
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