X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 13:14:22 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: igor2 AT igor2priv To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Debug: to=geda-user AT delorie DOT com from="gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu" From: gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu Subject: Re: [geda-user] How it may work some day... In-Reply-To: <1407070732.933.20.camel@AMD64X2> Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1408041309440.6734@igor2priv> References: <1407070732 DOT 933 DOT 20 DOT camel AT AMD64X2> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Sun, 3 Aug 2014, 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 have PCB installed on my nokia n900 (not a typical device). It works to some degree and once I even used it once to capture a draft. I may be an old-style user but for me web apps are just slow programs most often with inefficient and even annoying UI, and a lot of risks (what if I'm offline when I need to access the design, what if the host goes bankrupt or just makes the wrong decisions in a new version, etc). I prefer apps that I can run locally and combine them with my choice of version control. Regards, Tibor