On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 7:20 PM, N. T. <ntypesemi@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>

It is not about quickness. It is about privacy and reliability. A serious
design most probably would not want to go on web and assume that the web
owner is not stealing his/her idea. As with the reliability: Again, you
assume that the internet and that web site is always there. If you are a
serious company you need more reliable resources than that. Similarly I use
Google Docs quite a few times for writing letters and and small calculation=
s
on the sheets but only for my own and definitely would not use it to do my
presentations, my patents and my books... and guess what, it is not compare=
d
to Microsoft or Open Office, useful but not "serious" tool.

Tamas




> 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
> based 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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