What are the challenges or obstacles to delivering QShift as a web browser application?
The technology challenges to producing a browser-based version of QShift are at least twofold. First, Ixio believes it’s about the right tool for the right job. Someone said, “When all you have is a hammer, pretty soon everything starts looking like a nail.” The web browser has been the catalyst for a commercial Internet, but many now realize the web browser is akin to training wheels for the Internet. In other words, in the early days of the Internet, the browser was ideal for teaching people how to “navigate” or “surf” content. Fundamentally, the browser was designed to browse content of all kinds-rich media. Although the richness of media naturally leads to higher amounts of interactivity, at some point, asking the browser to handle certain computational and data manipulation tasks is overloading the tool beyond its most suitable purpose, leading to a less-than-optimal, if not dysfunctional, solution. Second, there are simply limitations to the capabilities of a web browser. The web
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