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What Do You Want On Future Browsers?

Posted by timothy on from the fewer-crashes dept.

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?"

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  1. Personally I want... by Verdatum · · Score: 4, Funny

    Laserbeams....oh yeah...and Ninjas!!!

    1. Re:Personally I want... by andrewd18 · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, no, you want frickin' ninjas with frickin' laser beams on their heads. That's obviously superior to individual ninjas and laser beams.

    2. Re:Personally I want... by Zencyde · · Score: 5, Funny

      Laser beams? Hell, I want porn! Porn with frickin' laser beams!

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  2. Force feedback by nuzak · · Score: 4, Funny

    Teledildonics. Mmm.

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  3. Why only 2D Vectors? by StCredZero · · Score: 4, Funny

    Give me 3D vector graphics, and let me play Battlezone in the browser!

  4. FF3 by pla$+!k · · Score: 5, Funny

    Firefox 3 ought to be enough for everybody

  5. Re:I want what most users want. by Angostura · · Score: 5, Funny

    You'll be wanting Lynx, my friend.

  6. Re:Fast and clean by Daimanta · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Fast and clean"

    Guess what ideal webbrowser and ideal hookers have in common.

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  7. Re:stability? by SatanicPuppy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow I didn't.

    *click*
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    *click**click**click**click**click**click**click**click**click**click*

    Mmmmmmm. I need a moment...alone...

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  8. Re:I want what most users want. by eldepeche · · Score: 5, Funny

    Basically, it would be really nice to never leave your web browser because all the functionality is there.

    Have you considered Emacs?