Re: [sword-devel] Personal Commentary and Dropbox.

2013-02-13 Thread Public
On Wednesday, February 13, 2013 01:39:37 PM Nic Carter wrote: > Apple, Google & Microsoft all have different/ulterior motivations for their > sync platforms, Dropbox is simply trying to make money from sync, hence (as > long as they don't go bust!) they're my choice... ;) Though dropbox has been

Re: [sword-devel] Personal Commentary and Dropbox.

2013-02-13 Thread Israel
@ Nic Carter I think leaving the sync open to the OPTION of letting other programmers plug in their favorite sync service would be nice. Hard coding Dropbox only service could prove to be a disaster if they flounder. If you created a 'generic' way to interface with cloud syncing, then you cou

Re: [sword-devel] Personal Commentary and Dropbox.

2013-02-13 Thread David Instone-Brewer
I love Dropbox but I agree that it doesn't give much in the way of APIs. I'm impressed by Google Apps Script which you can use to control their spreadsheets and other Google docs. Google docs now work offline fairly well with Gears, though for real-time syncs you need to be online of course. Y