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Re:Introducing Atlas: A Visual Development Tool for Creating... by madebylaw on Wednesday October 07, 2009 @03:43PM (#867479)
One of the big barriers for me to consider the web replacing the desktop is device support for the browser. Does anyone know of a way for web applications to talk to devices like digital cameras, video game paraphernalia, music instruments? Will atlas solve this problem?
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Re:Introducing Atlas: A Visual Development Tool for Creating... by tlrobinson on Thursday October 08, 2009 @05:31AM (#868662)
Atlas/Cappuccino doesn't solve this problem, because it's constrained by what the browser provides us. However it's possible to integrate custom plugins to do these sort of things, if absolutely necessary.

Picurio (YC W09) has a browser plugin to allow uploading of photos directly from your digital camera. The GUI frontend is built with Cappuccino and integrates with this plugin. http://picurio.com/

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Re:Introducing Atlas: A Visual Development Tool for Creating... by ams6110 on Wednesday October 07, 2009 @06:30PM (#867812)
No, it's still javascript running in a browser.
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