We had an amazing experience with jQuery as we tinkered with a few user interfaces (UI), and the power that the ready-made scripts can unleash. To begin with, jQuery was very easy to use on our blogs even for the least avid student. As a freelance Java programmer, I have always wanted to learn the tricks of coding light and portable interactive objects such as drag and drop, resizable, and so on, but always found myself creating resource intensive code that was not very portable. But with jQuery, that problem is addressed in a very neat and reliable UI; this is something that I will definitely incorporate in my web development; why re-invent the wheel?
On the question about what desktop applications would be perfect candidates for extending to web applications, the views of many students were as varied as there are computing applications. There were many who felt that desktop office applications like Microsoft office should extend to web applications. However, that is already available, in some form, in applications such as Google application or Zoho applications. Some also thought that a good graphics software program like Photoshop should be available online. Adobe has a graphics editing software online called Photoshop express that’s more like a light version that may suffice for even the intermediate user. Other students, including myself, wished for online video editing software that has more advanced features that will yield professional results; a lot of what is out there is just too mediocre. I also suggested desktop printer fleet management software that is available as a web application.
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