Re: [gimmie-list] websites-as-apps?

[Alex Graveley <alex beatniksoftware com>]

Ya, this is the grand plan behind Gimmie, basically...

In the near-term future Gmail, Basecamp, Wikipedia, etc will show up in 
Gimmie's Applications when you browse to them.  This makes them easier 
to switch to in the midst of other tasks, and allows for bookmarking. 
Presenting an icon you can manipulate grants these webapps the ability 
to be "installed" if you use them a lot, using DND or copy/paste, or 
some other mechanism.  And just browsing to their URLs gets an entry 
added to recently used, so you can find them again later.

In the long term some standardized phishing-proof solution will have to 
be developed to allow URL content to describe themselves as part of an 
application, and point to it's metadata.

Also, Gimmie will extend a bit beyond just applications, into documents 
and people, in that opened Friendster homepages or Facebook profiles 
will be represented as People objects that you can perform similar 
actions upon.

-Alex

Luis Villa wrote:
> Hey, all-
>
> (Cross-posting to two relevant lists; sorry that they don't both share
> use of http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/post-only - hope this
> might convince some fun ephy people to sign up and play with gimmie ;)
>
> This is a trend I detest, but it is happening to me anyway- I'm
> getting more and more apps that happen to be web pages, like google
> mail, google calendar, and basecamp. They are apps, and I interact
> with them like apps, not like documents or locations, but they don't
> show up in my applications menus (either in traditional panel or in
> gimmie.) I'd like to be able to trivially add them to my application
> menu somehow, either from the browser or from gimmie, but I'm not sure
> what interaction model to propose for that. Anyone have any
> suggestions on how that should be done (or how it can be done now and
> I'm missing it?)
>
> Thanks in advance-
> Luis
>
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