Hello,
Joel Spolsky who has written an article "How
Microsoft Lost the API War" that ends with the
conclusion:
None of this bodes well for Microsoft and the
profits it enjoyed thanks to its API power. The new
API is HTML, and the new winners in the application
development marketplace will be the people who can
make HTML sing.
has written a follow up story that outlines some
examples of the kinds of features Joel would like to
see in web browsers:
* A rich set of standard controls for application
development that provide better ways to upload files,
better ways to drag and drop with the desktop, etc
* Compiled or compressed JavaScript, so that web
applications can use really large amounts of
JavaScript with decent performance
* Better standardized windowing features. At the
very least I'd like modal and modeless dialogs that
pop up instantly, a standard way to do a menu inside a
web page (with ONE consistent UI, not everybody's
wacky DHTML menu that are all a bit different),
TreeView and ListView controls, and a standard way to
make a toolbar/button bar
* The ability to get a "device context" (in a
platform neutral way) on an HTML control and wail on
it to paint just about anything you want
* A far richer set of events. At the very least I
need to be able to use the entire keyboard. Combined
with #6 I should be able to develop any custom control
I want that is 100% client side.
and much more
Full story @
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2004/06/17.html
What are your ideas for improving the
HTML/CSS/JavaScript infrastructure to make web app
development better?
- Gerald
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Gerald Bauer
Thinlet Developers Group |
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thinlet
SwiXml Developers Group |
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/swixml
JDNC Developers Group | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jdnc
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