Hello, Chris Kaminski has written a Web Standards Project blog story titled "The Web as Platform" that looks into the brewing shootout in the rich browser market.
Chris writes: The usual suspects have been rushing in to stake out their turf in the emerging 'rich application' market: Sun with Java Web Start, Macromedia with their Central product for Flash, Mozilla with XUL, Microsoft with Avalon/XAML and the W3C with SVG + XBL. As well, a group of developers including representatives from Mozilla, Opera and Apple have been working on an evolution of HTML under the auspices of a group called WHAT Working Group. Chris concludes: Whichever technology comes out on top, the important thing to me is that it be developed openly, with input from many disparate sources, and be available for use royalty-free. Without those attributes, the web will never achieve its full potential as an applicaton platform. Source: http://webstandards.org/buzz/archive/2004_10.html#a000450 What's your take? Whose horse do you bet on? - Gerald --------------------------- Gerald Bauer Rich Client Conference (RichCon) 2005 - http://richcon.com XUL News Wire - http://xulnews.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________ xul-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-talk
