Tag : web applications

For some time now browser evolution has been slow and fraught with politics.

In recent years the only innovation there has been has come from the Ajax community, in the form of exciting libraries and frameworks that allow programmers to push the browser to the limit.

But this has in turn created two further problems; first, these initiatives are not standardised, and consequently they don't take advantage of the native platform in a way that compiled code can.

In this session Mark Birbeck explains a two-pronged approach to addressing this problem. On the one hand small and focused standards need to be created for new APIs that will be useful in many different kinds of application.

But in parallel, a new kind of library needs to be developed that will take advantage of native implementations of these standard APIs when they are available, but will fall back to Ajax implementations as necessary.

This opens up many exciting possibilities for internet-facing that run on both the web and the desktop.