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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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