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I watched the Ebay demo using Adobe Apollo and I was completely blown away. This post is a bit of a 'handwaving post :)' but I would like to discuss it further with one of the Adobe guys but have misplaced their contact details, so John or any of the Adobe guys if your listening can you drop me a line.
Posted: Feb 13 2007, 11:14 AM by andrewstopford | with 7 comment(s)
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Joe said:

Funny, I wasn't that impressed.  There are definitely better UIs for the auction sites including ebay.  Apart from the video and some of the caching there was nothing there that couldn't be done with AJAX.  I was expecting a significant step up.  

The whole freeformat user section on ebay always makes the site look like a bad pop-up.  

# February 13, 2007 8:41 AM

mike chambers said:

Andrew,

You can ping me:

mesh@adobe.com

I can answer any questions you might have (I'm on the Apollo team).

mike chambers

mesh@adobe.com

# February 13, 2007 10:48 AM

Phil Winstanley said:

Why were you blown away? Was it just that Adobe have not managed to destroy Flash or something else? The technology etc isn't that maazing ...

# February 14, 2007 6:48 AM

andrewstopford said:

Joe - bad UI won't be fixed by any RIA, that said EBay don't go for amazing UI but something that lets users do what they need. If you can give a user new a new and improved way of doing things they do already that brings value.

Mike - thanks for leaving your details, I have pinged you offline.

Phil - Several things about Apollo are cool, the mix of HTML\Ajax, PDF and Flash into one mix along with application API's brings new and interesting ways of building an application. In the Ebay app, the use of 3D and Video was effective and the offline data sync API bring tons of value to occasionally connected applications.

That all said I _still_ think that using Flex and Microsoft technologies interop needs to improve _a_lot.

# February 14, 2007 9:48 AM

Rick Winscot said:

Existing presentation tier technologies, yes – even Ajax, tend to gobble up resources; wither it is the continual processing and pushing of dynamic data or keeping Javascript/CSS libraries up-to-date to make sure that the majority of internet browers can even use the system (QA implications here are staggering). Apollo will allow you to reduce complex system requirements to a manageable common denominator and opens the door to some incredible ‘convergent’ thinking in systems design.

# February 15, 2007 6:09 PM

Delixe said:

For anyone interested and concerned with Apollo development a new forum has been launched just for the community, take a look and join in on this new technology--be one of the first to soak it up:

http://www.codeapollo.com

# March 19, 2007 9:50 PM

Turunen said:

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# June 16, 2007 2:02 PM
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