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Mozilla, Opera Form Group to Develop Web App Specs
An anonymous reader writes "MozillaZine is reporting that the Mozilla Foundation and Opera Software have formed a working group to develop specifications for Web applications. The new Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group is working on specs for Web Forms 2.0, Web Apps 1.0 and Web Controls 1.0, among others. This is being done outside of the W3C, with the hope of getting a viable alternative to Longhorn's XAML available soon. Another reason for working outside the W3C could be the rift between Mozilla/Opera and other W3C members over what technologies Web applications solutions such be based on: Mozilla/Opera favour a backwards-compatible HTML-based standard, others are looking towards to XForms and SVG. It will be interesting to see if any other browser developers jump on board WHATWG." This story builds on our recent story concerning the group.
Wrong. You dont know what are you doing. Sorry. Just like all those "rich user experience" wankers in all these other posts, you cannot be bothered to use the existing standards in a way that provides functional application interface. We developed a series of in-house web based MRP applications (yes the whole shebang including order processing, GL, scheduling etc etc) by using PHP and HTML 3. NO CSS. So that an ancient web browser running on an ancient computer can access it. Subsequently we dont upgrade workstations (err.. terminals really) until they fall apart. The IT expenditures went down by 90% yearly. That is the "rich" experience the business owners are after.
Your kind of "rich user experience" crap and business do not mix. In business, old green screen WYSE terminals were quite acceptable for vast majority of the tasks until some snake oil salesmen like Bill Gates managed to create a race as to whose company's clerical staff would fuck around with screen savers and browse porn more. The winner gets to have hundrends of vocational school MSCE's running arround all over the place, consuming 40% of company revenues in salaries. Plus to have Microsoft and Dell on the company's list of main creditors.
There are very, very few areas that even demand graphics, never you mind SVG or XAML. A web based interface is a questionable luxury already. But there is a lot of money to be squeezed out of clueless people with the phrase "rich user experience". Think endless sales of OSs that support the crap. Each of course demanding 25GHz Pentium 7 with 25GB of RAM. I can hear the cash registers going "cha-ching" already.
Your boss should read your posts, and mark you down firmly in the "frivolous, excessive expense" field on his next P&L report.