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How Would You Usurp the Web Browser?
cyclomedia wonders: "I've been thinking about this for a while now, and a recent article posturing about Web 3.0 brought forward some other suggestions which basically boiled down to 'what should be next.' Everyone here knows that HTML, Javascript and HTTPRequest are not the tools for building feature-rich interactive networked applications, but that doesn't stop Google, Microsoft and others from trying their best to use them to build office suites and the like. As one project puts it: 'we need to replace the Document Browser with an Application Browser.' So, let's get the ball rolling with my question: What type of platform would you like to see delivering the 'true' Web 2.0 in the not too distant future?"
that doesn't stop Google, Microsoft and others from trying their best to use them to build office suites and the like.
How can you include Microsoft in that sentence? They have done more to harm and impede the WWW than all other entities combined. You make them sound like they are doing something ground-breaking and cutting-edge. If MS could be granted one wish, they would ask for the death of "Web 2.0" and the return to static html, thus protecting their well-entrenched product line and business model.
Dan East
Better known as 318230.
In other words... what might succeed at doing exactly what Java and Flash promised to do, but have failed?
You're signing out Flash too quickly. I'd say give it a chance. I mean Flash 9 and Flex 2 are out just couple of months ago and Adobe also donated their supposedly (for Flash haters) "crappy" Flash 9 JS engine to Firefox, which will replace SpiderMonkey in the near future.
Flash currently has the best ECMA4 implementation out there, and fastest. And it's available right now, today, on all browsers, on Windows, Mac and Linux.