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Making Web Apps More Like Desktop Applications

November 20th, 2007 · Comments

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Panic screenshotI am constantly amazed that more website are not using drag and drop capabilities of Scriptalicious or other Javascript libraries to enhance the user experience. Panic Software has a nice drag-n-drop downloader that’s simple and fun. I’ve been spending more time with Adobe Air applications which promise to bring the desktop to the web, or the web to the desktop, or make the web more like the desktop, you get the idea. Early days for these types of apps, they can only get better.

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