pixelkid

BBOTV is a welcome advance for me since I moved to a MAC some 6 month ago. Currently I can only play Bridge online by restarting my mac and running Windows under "bootcamp". Of course the other possibility is to use "Parallels" desktop but I would need to install that just to run BBO. Frankly I cannot be bothered so I hope a full version of BBO will be running in my browser window very soon. The BBOTV graphics are a move in the right direction. Indeed, I think that with some work on the user interface the Browser based BBO could be a massive improvement on the current clunky interface. The user interface could benefit hugely from usability improvements. I find many things quite counter intuitive. Dont get me wrong, I think BBO software is great and works very well. It is just the human interface that is in need of improvement. To make it feel like you are really playing brudge rather than a computer game. Tech alert In the future programs like BBO will run in a browser window, Safari, IE, Netscape, Opera or Firefox and it will run on any OS, Linux, OSX, Windows. In fact, who meeds an OS. All you need is a browser. What about an iPhone? With advances in software programming, such as javascript libraries (EXT-JS) including drag and drop there is no reason why BBO will not in the future only be supported in a browser window. This is certainly the way things are going at Google (GWT). I am assuming that the application is written in Java. If so then using GWT should enable BBO to run with very little work since GWT creates all the necessary javascript required for whichever browser. This should solve many browser interop problems. Presumably you have a load of hand coded Javascript under the hood somewhere? Keep up the good work BBO on my mac - COOL ;)