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Re: End of the Web browser era? And an opportunity forSVG?

• To: AndrewWatt2000@a...
• Subject: Re: End of the Web browser era? And an opportunity forSVG?
• From: Joe Gregorio <joe@b...>
• Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:08:54 -0500
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AndrewWatt2000@a... wrote:

>Our very own Sean McGrath has written:
>
>http://www.itworld.com/nl/ebiz_ent/11052002/

>
>Among the points he made:
>"A critical aspect of web services is that resources are separated from 
>HTML and thus separated from reliance on traditional desktop browsers. 
>As such services proliferate, so too will thick client applications that 
>engage directly with the web services, by-passing HTML based user 
>interfaces."
>
Three such applications that I use on a daily basis:
1. An RSS news aggregator 
   (Full disclosure, I am the author of Aggie - http://bitworking.org/Aggie.html)
2. WebDrive, which allows me to map a WebDAV directory to a drive on my desktop machine.
3. RESTLog, a simple RESTian publishing client for a weblog. 
   (More disclosure, I am the author of RESTLog - http://WellFormedWeb.org)

But I think that while there may be a shift away from
the browser in some domains there are two developments
that may keep the browser in the game:

First the styling of XML with CSS in the browser can provide 
an interface, for example view the source of this site:
http://webaccess.mozquito.com/features/index.xml

Secondly, XForms support in a browser may obviate
the need in some instances for custom clients to access web services.
For example my custom RESTLog client wouldn't be 
necessary as I could post from a browser if it had
support for XForms. 

>
>
>Now, could it be that there is an XML application language ideally 
>suited to provide an aspect of these coming thicker clients?

XHTML 2.0?

	-joe

-- 
http://BitWorking.org
http://WellFormedWeb.org

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