Olin Lathrop <olin_piclist@embedinc.com> wrote:
> N. T. wrote:
>> Does anyone know a PCB Design web site? I'd like to learn PCB Design
>> by just trying to design something. I am not willing to install the
>> app on my PC, that's why - "web-based".
>
> Why?

Why not?

> That seems silly.

No, it is not (at least for me). :-)

> No serious elecrical CAD software is web based.

That is not a good argument at all, - There is no web-based PCB Design
software, because "No serious elecrical CAD software is web based".
:-)

No offense meant.
Seriously, PCB design CADs were quite successful even on Pentium 150
MHz, and were written in C language. Why they must not run in a
web-browser sandbox (Javascript) on a PC with Intel=AE Core=99 i7 CPU,
which is, let's assume, a hundred times faster?
Why? You may wish to ask yourself and try to answer it as well. I
believe, you'd find numerous reasons. Let's name a few:
- always latest algorithms, you don't need to update it;
- you can run it in a browser and don't care much what Op System it is base=
d on;
- if you need, say, to teach students, you can run it on as many PCs
as you need without installing it. You could run it even on a good
mobiles (some modern mobiles feature HDMI output), not to say about
tablets. A student would go home and continue working on a project
without the hassle to download and install the software.
- if you feel like making money of the web site, you would charge some
membership fee plus usage fee, summing up to ten bucks a month or so,
not hundreds bucks one time fee + update fee.
- Please, continue ...

Regards.

PS
Again, no offense meant.

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