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Jolicloud 1.0 Has an HTML5 UI
kai_hiwatari writes "Jolicloud 1.0, a Linux based OS for netbooks, was launched a few days back. In this new release, the developers have completely replaced the old interface based on Ubuntu Netbook Remix in favor of a new one based on HTML5. Jolicloud 1.0 also features a new syncing feature using which you can sync installed applications across all your systems running on Jolicloud. Other interesting features includes new app center, social stream, etc."
Why does it have cloud in its name? Just to attract attention or is there some related feature?
having tried jolicloud beta, I wholeheartedly look forward to the finished product. The UNR-based GUI was nice, but if i wanted UNR, I'd freakin' run UNR on it.
Cloud html5 app syncing is great, but I'm curious if they've got 4g back compatible web 3.0 blueface interballs technology for the kind of futureproof idevice demands the superuser of yestermorrow is sure to be told he needs.
Now the kicker, does it run beowulf? Last time I tried to stync my grendel module .99x was torn to pieces before the crowdsourced beta swarm could move to India.
Jolicloud 1.0 Has an HTML5 UI
Jolicloud 1.0 Has a HTML5 UI
There. fixed it for you.
Source: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/591/01/
It seems to be already slashdotted ;(
You can't really call it 'launched' when only select people have it. You can't DL it yet (it's still the pre-release available for DL) and if you already have it, you have to wait for them to allow you to upgrade.
It's not launched. It's in preview.
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - DM
Jolicloud.
Tell me why the geek's mind turn to mush when it comes to marketing his projects.
Is it "all the sugar and twice the caffeine" in his Jolt Cola?
I worry that this will be like Java apps; a way to make UIs and performance even worse. HTML is great, and HTML 5 is a clear improvement; but it certainly is nowhere near the performance, stability, and ease of use of an application designed a little closer to the hardware.
I've seen many decent programs ruined as companies tossed the client software they had written in C++ or even VB, and move to web-based UIs. Programming things in HTML 5 that would be best written in any of a dozen other languages will just stigmatize HTML 5, kind of the way you get a sinking feeling in your stomach when you fire up a new program and realize, while it's churning, that it's written in Java.
Chrome is really snappy on my netbook as well, but what I'm really waiting for is for someone to write an extension for chrome/chromium so I can use it as a file manager. I used to love konqueror just for that.
Oh come on Steve, we know there's nothing left!
Even steaming pile as big as yours aren't enough to make Vista and 7.
http://www.jolicloud.com/blog/
In the immortal words of Eddie Izzard:
The French have institutionalised a prescriptive approach to their language. For them, the "h" in "herbe" is silent. The English, by contrast, have institutionalised an aversion to all things French, so it's entirely possible they started aspirating their "haitches" in spite. At least that's my theory. ;-)
So which pronunciation is correct? I'd suggest both are. To say "none" seems a bit inane. I'd like to believe that somewhere between an overly rigid approach, and language as spoken in Idiocracy (the logical conclusion of your "non prescriptive" posturing), is a compromise, one that most adults in the room can agree to. Following (or advocating) established rules is how we get along, yes?
"I'm a modern man, a man for the millennium. Digital and smoke free. A
diversified multi-cultural, post-modern deconstruction that is
anatomically and ecologically incorrect. I've been up linked and
downloaded, I've been inputted and outsourced, I know the upside of
downsizing, I know the downside of upgrading. I'm a high-tech
low-life. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and
I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond!
I'm new wave, but I'm old school and my inner child is outward bound.
I'm a hot-wired, heat seeking, warm-hearted cool customer, voice
activated and bio-degradable. I interface with my database, my
database is in cyberspace, so I'm interactive, I'm hyperactive and
from time to time I'm radioactive.
Behind the eight ball, ahead of the curve, ridin the wave, dodgin the
bullet and pushin the envelope. I'm on-point, on-task, on-message and
off drugs. I've got no need for coke and speed. I've got no urge to
binge and purge. I'm in-the-moment, on-the-edge, over-the-top and
under-the-radar. A high-concept, low-profile, medium-range ballistic
missionary. A street-wise smart bomb. A top-gun bottom feeder. I wear
power ties, I tell power lies, I take power naps and run victory laps.
I'm a totally ongoing big-foot, slam-dunk, rainmaker with a pro-active
outreach. A raging workaholic. A working rageaholic. Out of rehab and
in denial!
I've got a personal trainer, a personal shopper, a personal assistant
and a personal agenda. You can't shut me up. You can't dumb me down
because I'm tireless and I'm wireless, I'm an alpha male on
beta-blockers.
I'm a non-believer and an over-achiever, laid-back but
fashion-forward. Up-front, down-home, low-rent, high-maintenance.
Super-sized, long-lasting, high-definition, fast-acting, oven-ready
and built-to-last! I'm a hands-on, foot-loose, knee-jerk head case
pretty maturely post-traumatic and I've got a love-child that sends me
hate mail.
But, I'm feeling, I'm caring, I'm healing, I'm sharing-- a supportive,
bonding, nurturing primary care-giver. My output is down, but my
income is up. I took a short position on the long bond and my revenue
stream has its own cash-flow. I read junk mail, I eat junk food, I buy
junk bonds and I watch trash sports! I'm gender specific, capital
intensive, user-friendly and lactose intolerant.
I like rough sex. I like tough love. I use the "F" word in my emails
and the software on my hard-drive is hardcore--no soft porn.
I bought a microwave at a mini-mall; I bought a mini-van at a
mega-store. I eat fast-food in the slow lane. I'm toll-free,
bite-sized, ready-to-wear and I come in all sizes. A fully-equipped,
factory-authorized, hospital-tested, clinically-proven,
scientifically- formulated medical miracle. I've been pre-wash,
pre-cooked, pre-heated, pre-screened, pre-approved, pre-packaged,
post-dated, freeze-dried, double-wrapped, vacuum-packed and, I have an
unlimited broadband capacity.
I'm a rude dude, but I'm the real deal. Lean and mean! Cocked, locked
and ready-to-rock. Rough, tough and hard to bluff. I take it slow, I
go with the flow, I ride with the tide. I've got glide in my stride.
Drivin and movin, sailin and spinin, jiving and groovin, wailin and
winnin. I don't snooze, so I don't lose. I keep the pedal to the metal
and the rubber on the road. I party hearty and lunch time is crunch
time. I'm hangin in, there ain't no doubt and I'm hangin tough, over
and out!"
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
The name reminds me of Jollibee, a Filipino fast-food chain that has fried chicken and random weird stuff. (There's one next to Moscone Center in San Francisco.)
Bill Stewart
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Based on the video, it looks like it has potential. But there are many things that are just a poor user interface. An example would be the speed that it takes to start up. GIMP just looks out of place. Note that I am comparing this to an iPad – and for good reason – this resembles the same target market to me.
Bravo
My first Journal Entry ever, in 8 years! http://slashdot.org/journal/365947/aphelion-scifi-fantasy-horror-poetry-webzine
This is why ChromeOS is gonna be so rocks and rule the world. HTML5 is clearly blurring the distinction between a web app and a desktop application, and you can see that it is definitely possible to do almost everything with just a browser using HTML5 and javascript.
There is this trend of replacing traditional GUI interface with web interface, even though the application itself is a desktop application. Such examples are Freenet, Transmission, Yacy, and so on. Some other applications are using web interface as well even they are not a website, such as the router administration interface, and Chrome's internal downloads and other configuration interface.
What we can see is that it is actually much more easier and portable to build desktop applications using web interface. HTML5 has become so powerful that it can be used to build almost all traditional applications that solely use the GUI APIs to build their interface. Text editor, video player, office suite, instant messaging, POS, and business suite can all be built using web interface and may have even richer interface. The only kind of applications that can't be built using HTML5 is those that build custom GUI components that use lower level display interface rather than the GUI API, such as Photoshop and other image/video/audio editing software, and games with a lot of interaction.
Some of you may complain saying that "ok web interface is cool, but I want to use that fucking application offline and I don't want to store things on the cloud". The solution is actually pretty simple - just install the web server on your computer! With what I call "client side server", you can get the best of both world: offline application with web interface. Some applications certainly do this (Freenet etc) by starting their own server, but if we can standardize this and bring everything together, we do can build a pretty powerful desktop that is completely built on web interface.
In summary - ChromeOS + client side server = killer app.
There is no such thing as a NullPointerException in, say, O'Caml.
One of the smartest comments on this topic i have seen for a while now.
I've seen some awesome applications written in Java, Flash, and HTML5.
You can't blame a language for awful applications written in them, it is the awful developers who throw around hacks, broken and messy, completely unoptimized code who are to blame.
And they aren't the only ones to blame either, STANDARDS are to blame as well. Some standards are pretentiously over-complex for the sake of readability, or "super cool new coding" standards.*
In the case of JavaScript? HELL NO. Compress that thing and keep an uncompressed version, with a link to it in the source at the top if an outside person wants to view it. (if you want them to)
This is a whole new platform just starting off. Forget HTML4 (even if there was some decent applications for that), HTML5, new JS extensions and CSS3 are years worth of changes, still changing at that.
Websockets, offline support, JS workers, transforms, semantic web (no more DIVs, YAY), countless other things.
The only problem we have to suffer is Microsoft, and some small disagreements with the people behind the standards and browsers.
*An example being the stupid hatred for things like GOTO.
So many people use GOTOs without them even realising it, like when it is disguised as another command for a special cases like BREAKs and CONTINUEs inside loops, exit statements, errors, several others.
So many people waste time making awful chains of IF statements that could easily be condensed just by using GOTO. (there was an example on here back when one game from Humble Indie Bundles sources were looked at, hell, Linus himself defended his use of GOTO in the Kernel pretty well too)
I've seen people with outright hatred for GOTOs despite the fact that the very computer they were using uses more GOTOs in a second than they have probably had hot dinners in their life.
GOTO is not evil, GOTO is just used for stupid reasons most of the time by sub-standard developers.
I suspect it's using Qt/KDE with webkit?
For one, a null pointer exception can actually be caught and dealt with. It also can't turn into anything exploitable, like a buffer overrun.
And I'd rather deal with segfaults once, by fixing the runtime environment, than with every single app. It's been probably six months since any part of my browser crashed, and less than a week since local, native apps have crashed.
And on top of all that, segfaults are caused by more than just dealing with uninitialized values.
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
Anyone else think it said lolicloud?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."