The power of touch

[Alain Stouder Omnis]

Hi Bryan,

Thanks for the link, I did not know what to do after porting our website to bootstrap… Sounds like these guys pushed it fast forward !

Regards,
Alain

> On 12 Dec 2016, at 23:45, Bryan Brodie <brb at appimatic.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I agree 100% with Gavin on most points. Lenovo makes some awesome gear for
> Windows / Linux, so that is where I spend my money now.
> 
> I do hanker after a Surface Studio, but we'll see how well that could run
> Linux natively (otherwise, hello VirtualBox) . . .
> 
> Touch-UI on MacOS won't be touchscreen Macs anytime soon, if ever.
> 
> Control Strip? Remember those funky home-PC keyboards back in Y2K that had
> buttons for "news", "shopping" and "email"? Same gimmick.
> 
> The lack of an actual touch UI on MacOS will detrimentally affect rapid
> creation of 'universal' touch software using Omnis Studio.
> 
> After owning Macs continuously since 1984 and developing cross-platform
> applications on Omnis 3/5/7/Studio, I have transitioned to Linux.
> 
> Now my focus is creating responsive web applications with consistent look /
> feel across Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android. Twitter Bootstrap
> provides this.
> 
> Check out http://keenthemes.com/preview/metronic/theme/admin_1/index.html
> for an example.
> 
> This theme set is $29 per customer site. Free design support included. It's
> an amazing tool kit. They update it every year.
> 
> Wiring up the back end code (PHP for me) is daunting, but it's all open
> source and, for the most part, free - including the server software.
> There's tons of examples / help on Stack Overflow and elsewhere on the
> 'net.
> 
> But --- not Omnis Studio compatible.  :-(
> 
> (I do use a tool I built with Studio in my web app development process -
> patent pending ;-)
> 
> I look forward to seeing where the new management takes Omnis in the
> near-term and long-term.
> 
> Thanks, that's my two cents worth.
> 
> Bryan Brodie
> 
> 
>> From: Gavin Foster <omnislist at dataweaver.com>
>> Subject: Re: The power of touch
>> 
>> Hi Bas and all,
>> 
>> I have been thinking the same thing.
>> 
>> Regarding touch screens:
>> 
>> I bought my son a Lenovo Yoga recently; it had a touch screen and noticed
>> how intuitive it is to him to "type and touch".
>> 
>> (This may also be partly because non-Apple touch pads often give a poor
>> response.)
>> 
>> I want to see Omnis fully support touch UI, including "pinch to zoom?.
>> Without it, our applications are going to look dated and consequently
>> suffer in any new business prospects.
>> 
>> 
>> Regarding Apple:
>> 
>> a) I'm taking the stance "Don't buy Macs till they pay their tax." I'll
>> consider a new MBP once they've coughed up 12 Billion euros to the Irish
>> government for their European business. (So I'm unlikely to be buying any
>> more Macs for a while!)
>> 
>> Hackintosh maybe but would prefer not to licence their OS for the same
>> reason, so please Omnis give us the Linux development version.
>> 
>> b) Apple have been fairly visionary in the past e.g. forcing software onto
>> the web in place of CD distributions. But now it's nothing more that cost
>> cutting and charging the customer more for the privilege of having less. No
>> ethernet port on the PC?s, no headphone port on the phones. You can't put
>> an accountant in charge and I see them falling from grace quickly.
>> 
>> 
>> Just my 2 eurocents worth.
>> Rgds, Gav
>> 
>> 
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