Google is now promising a browser to out-Firefox Firefox -- and bundle
Gears in the picture. On the one hand, that's great. On the other
hand, we're back to the same old issues. If applications in it do not
run in other browsers, i.e. Internet Explorer, that customers insist on
using, then they are at worst non-starters and at best, no longer
portable, run (most) anywhere web apps. I thought it was interesting
was the opening punchline of Google's treatise:
"Today, most of what we use the web for on a day-to-day basis aren't
just web pages. They're applications."
Google goes on to describe what could be an interesting application
platform but that will certainly be less portable than most existing web
application technologies for some time to come. They never really
justify why the application platform should be a browser at all. In
fact they make a special point to note that your applications can hide
the fact that they have any relation to the browser whatsoever (which
has raised some security concerns...). The between the lines message
seems to be that they don't want the application platform to be anything
(Flash/AIR/Silverlight/JavaFX/whatever) that won't have Google
advertising right in the center of the experience -- and seem to be
afraid that this might occur if someone does not greatly improve web
application client technology.
In the end I have to applaud Google if they succeed in moving client
technology /as a whole /forward. The jury won't weigh in on this for a
while yet -- it still hasn't for Android after all.
--
Jess Holle
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