Web 2.0 - offline! Give!
The principles of design and organization of information, characteristic of Web 2.0, are a long time ago to be dragged into desktop applications. Moreover, this very Web 2.0, on the contrary, is often accused of over-introducing desktop trends into the web. Speaking about the principles of design, I mean not translucency, gradients and logos. Leave your Aero or Compiz yourself. I want folksonomy, cross-cutting searches, interaction between people.
What, tell me, did Linotype prevent you, when they gave birth to your Fontexplorer X in agony to introduce a normal folksonomy there? Did they not see what was going on around? Don't they know how convenient the tag cloud is? Connect it with the community at your site (a reliable customer base and convenient classification of my fonts - most of the work has already been done for me), make a convenient opportunity to buy one or another new font (I don’t have it and never have, but the community has tagged it which I chose). Pull away the font on a hundred "folders" in the left panel - dismiss. And why in the same program when searching to press the Search button? Didn't they model the design of the Mac OS X app? Is searching as you type is so difficult nowadays?
Why, when my manager talks to Jabber with me, he cannot know that two more managers are chatting with me at the same time, so I cannot accept tasks in real time? It is impossible to make a notice that I am now talking with this and that (because they even sit in neighboring places!)? And how the hell do I navigate the list of 200+ contacts, even if people are shoved by department? What, the filter in the list - a difficult thing?
The technology of the widgets was in the hands of Microsoft back in the days of Windows 98! Do not believe - remember about Active Desktop, a system that allows you to display web pages directly on your desktop. In my WinXP at work, I use it all the time - the Reformer and the personal TiddlyWiki are always at hand. Would add the possibility of using a transparent background - and what is not Dashboard! At the same time, IE would have long been able to adequately perceive PNG.
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And so on and so forth.
What, tell me, did Linotype prevent you, when they gave birth to your Fontexplorer X in agony to introduce a normal folksonomy there? Did they not see what was going on around? Don't they know how convenient the tag cloud is? Connect it with the community at your site (a reliable customer base and convenient classification of my fonts - most of the work has already been done for me), make a convenient opportunity to buy one or another new font (I don’t have it and never have, but the community has tagged it which I chose). Pull away the font on a hundred "folders" in the left panel - dismiss. And why in the same program when searching to press the Search button? Didn't they model the design of the Mac OS X app? Is searching as you type is so difficult nowadays?
Why, when my manager talks to Jabber with me, he cannot know that two more managers are chatting with me at the same time, so I cannot accept tasks in real time? It is impossible to make a notice that I am now talking with this and that (because they even sit in neighboring places!)? And how the hell do I navigate the list of 200+ contacts, even if people are shoved by department? What, the filter in the list - a difficult thing?
The technology of the widgets was in the hands of Microsoft back in the days of Windows 98! Do not believe - remember about Active Desktop, a system that allows you to display web pages directly on your desktop. In my WinXP at work, I use it all the time - the Reformer and the personal TiddlyWiki are always at hand. Would add the possibility of using a transparent background - and what is not Dashboard! At the same time, IE would have long been able to adequately perceive PNG.
')
And so on and so forth.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/14413/
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