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Hi Stefan,

On 03/08/2014 13:58, Stefan Salewski wrote:
> Yesterday I wrote some minimal description of the intended behaviour of
> my gschem clone, see
>
> http://www.ssalewski.de/PetEd.html.en
>
> In first line this is for myself -- to motivate me to continue the
> cleanup process and to ensure that my cleanups will not change the
> intended behaviour...
>
> Recently someone pointed me to one of these commercial Web-based editors
> -- this one is from Digikey called SchemeIt, see link at bottom of my
> page. I can remember I have tested a similar tool about one year ago for
> a few seconds -- looked not really bad. Some people say that this kind
> of Web-based tools is the future -- is someone really using it?
>
> And schematics and PCB layout on smartphone and tablets -- I can
> remember that some people said that that is the future. I still can not
> really imagine how this should work, and I have not seen such Apps yet.
> Is someone using it, and is it really the future? Or is someone of you
> already working on such an App?
>
>
I will  not be picking up a tablet for design work any time soon... when 
people say 'this is the future' I think they are forgetting about all 
the trappings of schematic capture and design. Where are we supposed to 
put the 300+pg datasheets on our tablets? Is it really going to be 
faster or better to have the tablet involved? I don't think it'll ever 
surpass the ease of use of a desktop, especially with multi-head display.

Just my 2c.
Ed

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