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Re: [News] Firefox Gaining, Web Applications May Already Beat Desktop Applications

__/ [ BearItAll ] on Thursday 03 May 2007 09:40 \__

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> Firefox claws more users from Microsoft
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Firefox continues to claw users away from IE - the most recent measure
>> | by web analyst NetApplications shows Firefox has a worldwide market
>> | share of 15 per cent, compared with 78 per cent for IE.
>> `----
>> 
>> http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/05/02/1177788202450.html
>> 
> 
> Web applications have to take off big time, the potential is too huge to
> ignore.
> 
> Imagine this, in your home.
> 
> You have a Linux server, on there all of your main applications run.
> 
> There different forms of this,
> 
> One where the processing is done entirely on the server so your client only
> needs to view the resulting view. No need for anything other than key
> response code on your handheld device or guest's computer.
> 
> <various levels of shared processing with the clients, up to>
> 
> The kids have a mega computer in their bedroom, so might as well let that
> take over some of the processing, particularly processing that doesn't need
> to return to the server after it has finished, games or processes that do
> not produce a data result that the server end needs to know about.
> 
> Then the idea extends, because the applications are on the server and
> therefore clients can be cut down to a bare minimum, does every client
> actually need a view? Lights out, curtains closed, dog fed...
> 
> Yes I know those are more the fun side of things, but appliance control is
> much more possible in a Linux environment than it ever was in an MS
> environment. Little viewless wifi modules.
> 
> Then of cause update day. So dad logs into xen-home2, checks the update was
> ok and the mirror is up to date, switches xen-home2 to live then sets
> xen-home1 to update itself. Then he takes the trash out, just another
> household chore. That is as easy as it should become.

I sort of do the server(host)-client thing in the sense that over a 100Mbit
connection I always use just one computer and SSH to access one from
another. Backups are also simplified, so they automatically put the server's
content in 3 places overnight. I have done this for several years and it has
many advantages. Luckily, the server never ever goes down, but in cases of
outages the routers take time to recover. In the interim, there's no access
to your data. Still, centralisation (of bookmarks, cookies, passwords,
applications, etc.) is a wonderful thing. It saves a lot of time.

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