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<blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5070931" data-attributes="member: 8835">I don't see your page aggregation as being much different than managing bookmarks to important pages, which nearly all e-book software has in varying implementations.I do agree that multi-tasking/task swapping would be extremely valuable.&nbsp; I'm not surprised that Apple used the same OS, that was actually smart from a development standpoint.&nbsp; It wouldn't take much for them to add task-swapping and enable it only for the iPad (though there's some value on the smaller devices).&nbsp; For the most part, humans don't need multi-tasking as much as task-swapping anyway.&nbsp; At that point, a task manager/task bar feature would let the user flip to &quot;loaded&quot; tasks, and when they switch, it would save the app-state to &quot;disk&quot; and load in the next one.&nbsp; We'd then need functionality to &quot;exit&quot; and app as the Home button currently does that.&nbsp; the key to it would be making it smooth.&nbsp; But given the current model of clicking Home to exit the app to pick another app and load it to navigate to the spot we needed to be to paste something, and then repeating that process when we want to go back...One thing I'm surprised WotC did was do DDI as a download.&nbsp; It should have been a web-based application.&nbsp; Nothing to install.&nbsp; Thus it can run on nearly any client with a modern browser. As a developer, I avoid client-side applications.&nbsp; Browser-based is the way to go for most situations.&nbsp; Especially anything accessing a database (which DDI would need to do).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Janx, post: 5070931, member: 8835"] I don't see your page aggregation as being much different than managing bookmarks to important pages, which nearly all e-book software has in varying implementations. I do agree that multi-tasking/task swapping would be extremely valuable. I'm not surprised that Apple used the same OS, that was actually smart from a development standpoint. It wouldn't take much for them to add task-swapping and enable it only for the iPad (though there's some value on the smaller devices). For the most part, humans don't need multi-tasking as much as task-swapping anyway. At that point, a task manager/task bar feature would let the user flip to "loaded" tasks, and when they switch, it would save the app-state to "disk" and load in the next one. We'd then need functionality to "exit" and app as the Home button currently does that. the key to it would be making it smooth. But given the current model of clicking Home to exit the app to pick another app and load it to navigate to the spot we needed to be to paste something, and then repeating that process when we want to go back... One thing I'm surprised WotC did was do DDI as a download. It should have been a web-based application. Nothing to install. Thus it can run on nearly any client with a modern browser. As a developer, I avoid client-side applications. Browser-based is the way to go for most situations. Especially anything accessing a database (which DDI would need to do). [/QUOTE]

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