[IxDA Discuss] Desktop app --> Web app guidelines

[Michael Tuminello]

I would add

- what are the reasons for building a web version as opposed to a  
desktop app?
no installation?  integration of data with other web apps?  move to  
subscription model?

with new technology like Adobe's Apollo on the horizon, the lines are  
going to blur in the near future, and make the answers to this  
question less obvious.  Other questions would hinge on the why.

Michael





On Aug 22, 2006, at 8:21 AM, Cindy Lu wrote:

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> I would add one more question to your questions:
> Who will use the guildelines if they do exist?
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> - Cindy
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> On 8/21/06, Sherman, Paul <paul.sherman at sage.com> wrote:
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>> Today I received an interesting question from a Product Manager in  
>> another
>> business unit. She is part of an initiative to create a "web- 
>> based" version
>> of their Windows-only desktop application. Her question was:
>>
>> "Has anyone [in the other application groups] developed guidelines  
>> to bring
>> their application to the web?"
>>
>> I told her I'd ping a few UX/IxD/UCD discussion groups.
>>
>> So, does anyone know of a good set of guidelines for "web-alizing"  
>> a desktop
>> app?
>>
>> Needless to say, I had a boatload of questions for her, some of  
>> which were:
>> --Did she mean "the app is delivered in a browser" or "delivered  
>> in a thin
>> client, not necessarily inside a browser?" Other?
>> --Will current users be required to / have the option to use the  
>> web-based
>> version? Or is the web version only for new customers?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks all,
>>
>> Paul
>>