March 26, 2003
Internet Applications, Unplugged
A project I've been working on at Macromedia is starting to become known now, it is called Macromedia Central and is a way to deliver Internet applications that can be used both online and offline -- some stories are already being published. I'm very happy to be able to talk about it more tomorrow, and will be presenting in the morning at Flashforward. It won't be shipping until this summer, and we'll be talking about it sooner than usual since we want to include the developer community early.
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Anil says:
Todd Hopkinson says:
Looking forward to getting some details and having the vague clarified.
Digitalboy(china) says:
It seems cool. I like it.
Marc Canter says:
yes and they only want 20% of the money. Oh - that's right - Director couldn't do this....
Brent O. says:
I'm dying to see if there's a kiosk-mode style of running Central. One of the difficulties I've always had with internet-based apps is that we want to put them at a kiosk in a remote location that doesn't have full-time internet, and let them connect periodically to send/receive collected data and updates. In theory, Central sounds like the right answer, but if the client is as thick and configurable as it looks, then I can't just let the public bang away on a computer running Central. It'd be great to have a "kiosk" mode that dominates the user interface, doesn't allow configuration changes (like adding/removing apps), and so on.
Tony MacDonell says:
Kevin,
You must find a way to safely allow applications to access files on the user's computer. In Central it seems we will have no way to upload files to a server for example, and this is a problem. Central has major potential, but If I cannot utilize local images or text files, then it isn't really that great.
For example, a nice little CMS app would be cool, but If I can't upload jpg's then what do I do?
In the browser you can hack it with an html pop-up. But that does not seem possible in Central.
Any insight on how this will be dealt with?
John Kranz says:
Looking forward to further details on Macromedia Central as they become available.
John Dowdell says:
Brent, Tony, I think you might be happier with a standalone application then, rather than the type of personalized application browser that Central is.
(John, I'm glad you're interested in, nice to "see" you around.)
Real estate web designer says:
Seems to be a logical extension
Jeff Johnson says:
Very cool. We make ECD content for musicians.. using everything MX we can work out.
sound,video, info interaction, you name it.. along with a special connect to webcontent.
PHP/mySql, Squeeze-FLV.. etc.
Keep up the great work.
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These pieces look terrific. Can't wait to dig in and see how you've integrated all this stuff. Small pieces of Flash, loosely joined.