Hello, It looks like Google is already building or getting ready to build its very own browser to break its dependence on Internet Explorer so it can better compete with Microsoft and push the richness of web applications to new heights using some sort of XML UI language.
The blogzilla blog reports in a story titled "The Google Browser, Reloaded": I think Google is interested in Mozilla because of one thing: enhancing XUL. They recently grabbed Joe Beda, the lead developer of Microsoft's Avalon user interface in Longhorn. And Avalon is basically XUL... sort of. To see an example of a XUL app on the web, check out the Mozilla Amazon Browser. In my opinion, XUL is a bit cludgy and not-ready-for-primetime yet. But if Google partners with Mozilla to work on it, to enchance it, they could have many uses for XUL for any of the apps they have. GMail is the most app-like webapp I've ever seen. They have pushed what you can do with a webapp's page-by-page format. And "performing tasks page-by-page is not always the most efficient way of doing things". I think they've reached the limit with what they can do with a hardcore DHTML system. Do they invest more into pushing DHTML to its limits? Once they reach that limit, where can they go from there? The answer: to an enhanced XUL application. Maybe they want to make a XUL version of Gmail? Googe Groups could be much better in XUL interface. XUL could make it easier to search and view threads. And related items could be an expanding tree under the search, etc... The current system is bulky. It uses frames! XUL isn't exactly Gmail-like "simple" though. It's a completely different way of interacting on the web. I still think it's a long way away before any widespread use. But it certainly has lots of possible uses worth investing in if you're Google. I still think we'll see a Google IM client before we see a Google Browser. Source: http://www.deftone.com/blogzilla/archives/the_google_browser_reloaded.html What's your take? Is the browser war heating up? This time its Google vs. Microsoft? Is Google the new Netscape? Will Yahoo follow? Will we see a Y!Browser? - Gerald -------------------- Gerald Bauer Lopica - All Things Web Start | http://lopica.sourceforge.net Web Start Forum | http://webstartforum.com Web Start News Wire | http://webstartnews.com Web Start F.A.Q. | http://webstartfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php _______________________________________________ xul-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-talk
