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Papers From W3C Web Apps Workshop Available

Posted by timothy on from the little-light-reading dept.

cying writes "Position papers from the W3C Workshop on Web Applications and Compound Documents are now available. The workshop will discuss the W3C's future roadmap for web application standards. Many weighed in, including Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, the Mozilla Foundation, Sun, and several mobile companies (including mine)."

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  1. Re:Hack built upon hack by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think there are other advantages:

    • Security: I might trust a web application (like Google) to provide me with search results, but not necessarily with all the content on my hard drive.
    • Access to information: Local apps might need to access information stored in a central repository. Would it make sense to have Google or Slashdot running as a local application?

    It could certainly be argued that HTML and HTTP need changes, and perhaps a rewrite (although I doubt a rewrite will happen in the next 10-20 years). There are also undoubtedly many web applications that are written as hacks. But I don't think a hosted application accessible from a browser is a hack.

    On an unrelated note, I do question the W3C getting seriously involved in what appear to be server-side issues. I would personally prefer the W3C focus on clientserver standards. There are already plenty of server-side standards (servlets, Perl CGI, etc.) for applications. And the client need not be aware of them.