The blogger and Principal Product Manager for Adobe Photoshop discusses the possibility of a document-centric approach to computing, in which software applications are oriented around the data, rather than vice versa (which is the paradigm we have now). Rather than opening up a document in say Illustrator and then opening a second one in Photoshop, this approach would allow a single document to possess qualities of both applications, and to trigger the appropriate functionality at the right time within a ‘grand unified’ program. Just goes to show that if you listen hard enough, you can often hear faint whispers of the ideas underlying Apple’s aborted OpenDoc framework among the tech faithful.
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