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 ------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND _______________________________________________ xul-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-talk