Jon Udell blogs about AJAX encapsulation with TIBCO General Interface. This is one seriously cool product and I'm now officially itching to get my hands on it.
On the other hand it makes me wonder why we persist in trying to rebuild the functionality of the OS (windowing systems and so on) inside the browser. More and more it seems to me that we need to have a complete re-write of the OS windowing system to take advantage of all the things we have learned about GUIs in the past little while.
Imagine if the "windowing" software for the OS was actually just a giant browser. You'd get automatic "Active Desktop". You'd be able to open frames and dialogs and file choosers and all the other crunchy goodness that we have painstakingly baked into the browser. You'd also stop worrying about whether your application's super-duper feature was going to work on MacOS, Windows and Linux since all three could run this "super-browser" as the base object in the windowing system.
There's probably a really good reason (other than the phenomenal effort required) to not do this... but I can't think of it.
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You mentioned the InfoWorld columnist Jon Udell’s blog and recording of the AJAX tool called General Interface. Here’s the link: http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2005/05/25.html
In case you are interested, we (TIBCO) are hosting a free-to-attend AJAX/RIA webinar with the leading Gartner analyst covering rich internet applications. We will also be showing a demonstration and have an opportunity to answer attendees direct questions. Here's the link to register:
http://www.tibco.com/mk/2005/wsemtgi23-jun-05us.jsp
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