A huge Paradigm-Shift towards an Integrated Working Environment

Posted by donleone
Apr 8, 2014 at 09:02 AM

Hugh wrote:
Is it simply old-fashioned to be hesitant about committing so much to
>the risks and compromises inherent in the Internet?

in the first post, under the “Online Spreadsheet Options” it gives this option too:

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OR AT BEST ( for maximum data security & privacy )
you can put a spreadsheet application ON YOUR OWN SERVER if you have,
such as a joomla spreadsheet app or the like, and then login & use it from there.
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thus of course you would have as much security as it could possibly be.

But i admit the underlying problem in all of this, is indeed,
the thus “forced” need to sacrifice & go “for online apps”
just so to have “something app-like accessible through the Internal HTML Browser”.

for this reason, originally, i did also consider (some crazy) possibilities
to achieve this same effect of accessing apps via the HTML Internal Browser window,
but do it ALL OFFLINE (that is, without any need for any online apps !)

How so?

The 3 key options were:

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OPTION 1 - Use an HTML5/Flash self-contained offline apps
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1. HTML5 provides the ability to create inter-active “downloadable-offline apps”
that could thus be saved directly into your Outliner’s Tree and triggered totally offline
directly into your Internal Browser’s window.

but the problems with this still relatively new technology, are:

a.) that these download-able (single-file) working apps
are usually soo limited in functionality,
that it can never (yet) approach, the depth of say an Excel Online…

b.) that sadly most of the internal Outliner browser rendering engines,
(or any other existing Outliner that can render HTML pages in their Editor as-well)
don’t even yet support flash/HTML5 to my knowledge,
while others which go via the built-in Internet Explorer Engine (like Ultra Recall etc.)
should be able do.

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OPTION 2 - Multiple remote desktop connections VIA BROWSER (to yourself offline)
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and thus log-in into e.g. a 2nd account of yourself (on your own PC/MAC/Linux)
and simply launch the native apps in the desired environment,
through your quasi “remote” desktop.

but the main problem with this again is

that multiple / concurrent / simultaneous
remote desktop connections to yourself (i.e. to 1 PC)
are very little supported in any software/Operating System that i know of,
so that you’d most likely be limited to max 1 app at once
(which then again would a bit defeat the whole purpose)

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OPTION 3 - In-Browser Application Virtualization (via Java or ActiveX)
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although this seems like an indeed existing field,
i do not know of any actual software
that could achieve this easily & cheaply

(except this old now dead-software which exactly did this
called “CrystalPort AppCapture”
respectively
“CrystalPort Browser”

see screenshot here, with virtualized old-school PaintShop Pro IN BROWSER:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12285943/CrystalPort_Browser.jpg

with but again the idea being obvious
to use such a system as a “bridge” in the background
to make visible all your NATIVE apps in your tool’s Internal browser.

but that’s about it,
with this little experiment :-)

Greetings!