Comments on: ChromeOS, another step in the direction of “the web, everywhere” http://www.webdirections.org/blog/chromeos-another-step-in-the-direction-of-the-web-everywhere/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:39:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: john Allsopphttp://www.webdirections.org/blog/chromeos-another-step-in-the-direction-of-the-web-everywhere/comment-page-1/#comment-209591 john Allsopp Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:48:39 +0000 http://www.webdirections.org/?p=1958#comment-209591 Hi Richard,interestingly, I know a few smart, really clued in folks in the web and mobile arena who are very positive about the Kindle in particular. I'm a very big reader, but it draws one big meh from me. I see it and eBook readers as business delivery technologies - my feeling is that they are designed with the business interest of their developers and their partners in mind, not as great ways to deliver a reading experience to their users. That they may also be, but it's my sneaking suspicion that that's not their raison d'être. Hi Richard,

interestingly, I know a few smart, really clued in folks in the web and mobile arena who are very positive about the Kindle in particular. I’m a very big reader, but it draws one big meh from me. I see it and eBook readers as business delivery technologies — my feeling is that they are designed with the business interest of their developers and their partners in mind, not as great ways to deliver a reading experience to their users. That they may also be, but it’s my sneaking suspicion that that’s not their raison d’être.

]]> By: Richard Finkhttp://www.webdirections.org/blog/chromeos-another-step-in-the-direction-of-the-web-everywhere/comment-page-1/#comment-208842 Richard Fink Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:00:52 +0000 http://www.webdirections.org/?p=1958#comment-208842 <em>"I’m not sure why there isn’t a lot more excitement that HTML/CSS/JavaScript, and related web technologies are becoming in reality “write once, run everywhere”, not just in terms of the devices they’ll run on, but also in terms of the flexibility they provide to create appropriate user experiences on very varied devices with the same core code."</em> I'm with you on this. It's quite amazing. And any platform that defies this trend (I'm thinking of certain E-Reading platforms) will ultimately be snowballed by those that don't. “I’m not sure why there isn’t a lot more excitement that HTML/CSS/JavaScript, and related web technologies are becoming in reality “write once, run everywhere”, not just in terms of the devices they’ll run on, but also in terms of the flexibility they provide to create appropriate user experiences on very varied devices with the same core code.“
I’m with you on this. It’s quite amazing. And any platform that defies this trend (I’m thinking of certain E-Reading platforms) will ultimately be snowballed by those that don’t.

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