Hello, David Temkin who has attended the W3C workshop on rich clients has written up a blog story titled "W3C standards and Web applications" summing up his thoughts.
David writes: The viewpoints expressed on the first day seemed to fall into four categories: 1) This is a non-issue. The Web as it stands is more than adequate to the task of delivering applications. A few presenters emphasized that it is possible to create sophisticated applications, even interactive games, with today's browsers running DHTML. 2) With XHTML, XForms and SVG, and a way of combining these languages, the problem can be solved. This is what's meant by "compound documents" -- can a browsing environment (or multiple environment "profiles") be created in which these existing languages are harmonized to enable rich interactivity in a rationalized, standrardized manner? This approach was advocated by Adobe and others, and ultimately won the group's approval. 3) A few discrete extensions to DHTML will solve the problem. This was advocated by representatives of Mozilla and Opera, who later formed a working group called WHAT-WG to specify these add-ons. 4) We need a new unifying language/spec, which may subsume other W3C specs, for building Web applications. This position was advocated by Sun, and OpenWave. It is also the path being taken by Laszlo, along with most "rich Internet" companies, and to some extent by Microsoft, though they were at pains to position XAML as a way to write Windows apps, not Web apps. More @ http://www.davidtemkin.com/mtarchive/000004.html What position do you you favor? Let us know. - Gerald ------------------- Gerald Bauer XUL Alliance | http://xul.sourceforge.net United XAML | http://xaml.sourceforge.net ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com _______________________________________________ xul-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-talk
