Does anyone use any of these services? I've always thought it was best to let the underlying real operating system take care of windowing and let each URL be one application.
I have same feeling. Youos is wonderful but I always feel it waste too much screen space. On the other hand current browser is not very suitable for running multiple web apps also. Maybe we need a better container...
But really, what we are talking about is just a resurgence of thin clients. And why not? They make sense. No updating software, all your files are there for you whereever you go and today we have the bandwidth to handle it (we do vid downloads without batting an eyelid!).
Especially with Google's gears coming along, it will mean we can do everything offline. It's getting close to CMS your home dir and apps.
When I was in high school (15 years ago or so) I said the perfect computer app would be one where you didn't know it was there and just used it to do what ever you wanted, like in TNG. This is getting close!
1. Privacy (and don't tell me it is overrated, it's not)
2. Reliability (yes, I do understand my hard drive can fail, but my OS doesn't delete my e-mail just as GMail did)
3. And the fact that I have to go online to fetch my file
Just my feeling:)
1. It's better to run web application with more screen space, not every app need menu bar, toolbar, etc brought by every instance of browser.
2. For browsing, tab is excellent. For web application, tab is not enough. For example, I can't implement an "always on top" thing using tab, I can't let browser remember every application's location and size. These features are good for productivity.
Current browsers are designed for maximum surfing productivity and not dedicated to provide a perfect web application container.
