Gerald Bauer wrote: [Snip!]
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.
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What position do you you favor? Let us know.
I guess my ideal would be a mix of the following:
* XHTML1.1 + Web Forms 2.0 + Web Apps 1.0 + Web Controls 1.0. * CSS 3.0. * Javascript 2.0 * sXBL (or XBL 2.0, whatever they want to call it). * SVG 1.0. * Perhaps XForms, XPath, et cetera. * A W3C XUIL standard based on XUL.
By basing in on XHTML, you create a migration path for existing web apps. There's already a profile for using SVG inside XHTML, and it could be included as an image file for backgrounds and such using CSS. I'd love to use CSS+XBL2+JS2+SVG+XUL2 to create widgets so powerful, you'd think they were natively coded. Plus, if you're using alternative stylesheets, the user can change the entire UI layout and functionality. Really powerful stuff.
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