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What Do You Want On Future Browsers?
Coach Wei writes "An industry wishlist for future browsers has been collected and developed by OpenAjax Alliance. Using wiki as an open collaboration tool, the feature list now lists 37 separate feature requests, covering a wide range of technology areas, such as security, Comet, multimedia, CSS, interactivity, and performance. The goal is to inform the browser vendors about what the Ajax developer community feels are most important for the next round of browsers (i.e., FF4, IE9, Safari4, and Opera10) and to provide supplemental details relative to the feature requests. Currently, the top three voted features are:
2D Drawing/Vector Graphics, The Two HTTP Connection Limit Issue, and HTML DOM Operation Performance In General . OpenAjax Alliance is calling for everyone to vote for his/her favorite features. The alliance also strongly encourages people to comment on the wiki pages for each of the existing features and to add any important new features that are not yet on the list."
On a related note, an anonymous reader writes "The Tao of Mac has put up pretty interesting list of five things that are still wrong with browsers these days, and I have to wonder — with things like AIR starting to be accepted by developers, do we still need the browser at all?"
Laserbeams....oh yeah...and Ninjas!!!
Teledildonics. Mmm.
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.
Give me 3D vector graphics, and let me play Battlezone in the browser!
Firefox 3 ought to be enough for everybody
First of all, I want them to fix the Slashdot effect so I can read about the other probems.....
You'll be wanting Lynx, my friend.
"Fast and clean"
Guess what ideal webbrowser and ideal hookers have in common.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
I think that you have to make the design modular so the ninjas can be made available either with or without laser beams. While we're at it, we will really need an open standard bus supporting ninja-laser interconnectivity. I should think that we could interest an IEEE working group in such an activity. It's important that we develop a generic enough command set so that our ninjas and lasers can interact with as rich a set of other devices as possible. (i.e. ninja-laser-television-beer cooler interoperability would be high on my list)
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nuff said.
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Don't forget that they both should take up as little space in your memory as possible.
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Basically, it would be really nice to never leave your web browser because all the functionality is there.
Have you considered Emacs?
It would save a lot of time.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
wait..your web browser feeds your dog? boy i have missed a lot, has AI gone that far?
I have 3 different kitchen sink add-ons. One is really good at hot and cold water, one is great at draining, but it crashes if you get hair in there. I use a third for dispose-all purposes.
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This could be a great start to the modular vs. monolithic kernel debate! Where is Tannenbaum when you need him :(
Have you tried Lynx?
However, it's possible that they will end up providing some more graceful degradation of the content, in which case users might start seeing messages like, "Sorry, this page doesn't display in Internet Explorer 10, because Internet Explorer 10 doesn't support SVG. Please use an SVG-enabled browser, such as Firefox, Safari, Opera, Konqueror, or Galeon."
I think I'd go into full cardiac arrest if I ever saw that error message from IE.
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