So I was working the eBay scene yesterday with the goal of a new phone, and I quickly remembered how much it sucks to try and track multiple bids, and time those last second bids. It surprised me that eBay.com still lacked any real Ajax (Live countdowns anyone?) anyways the long of the short is that I eventually stumbled across eBay Desktop Beta, one of the front runners utilizing adobe's new desktop runtime based on flash. Given Adobe's track record of promising Linux implementations, then half-delivering years later, I was about to just give up. On a whim I decided to give wine a shot at this, not only did AIR install painlessly, but the app was functionally complete, and only minor display issues (Ironically, these all seemed to be the WebKit components, all the html rendered by AIR was ugly and oddly formed).
Either way, I got my phone, and have already fallen in love with the application for all my ebay purchases, but whats more, wine is just really impressing me. With the new Mono integration pending, I think we can start to make a truely astounding claim... Linux supports Windows XP elements at least as well as Vista, if not better! ;)
Ok, so the above is a little exaggerated, but still, for that once in a blue moon when I stumble accross things like this (niche Windows apps) I really have a near-complete solution. I was thoroughly impressed.
So I was working the ebay scene yesterday with the goal of a new phone, and I quickly remembered how much it sucks to try and track multiple bids, and time those last second bids. It surprised me that ebay.com still lacked any real Ajax (Live countdowns anyone?) anyways the long of the short is that I eventually stumbled accross Ebay Desktop Beta, one of the frontrunners utilizing adobe's new desktop runtime based on flash.
