Archive for March, 2005

Things that still work, years later

Friday, March 25th, 2005

Just came across the subArctic website. subArctic was apparently a program out of Georgia Tech for a "new" UI infrastructure for Java--back when AWT was the rage. The amazing thing is how many of the demos still work, ten years later, and also how many of the ideas are still ...

Rich clients look like the future (to me)

Sunday, March 13th, 2005

I've been thinking about rich clients apps (RCA) versus HTML client apps (HCA), and why I tend to like rich clients better. The RC app that most impressed me in the last few years was iTunes; for an HCA, it would probably be this German website to look for rooms ...