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Vector Graphics Lead Wish List For Future Browsers

Posted by timothy on from the unlisted-options-involved-pornography dept.

Coach Wei writes "Community voting results and a summary report have been published from OpenAjax Alliance's recent "community wishlist for future browsers" effort. When the voting closed on July 13th, 222 people participated in this open community initiative, with 143 people voted, 55 feature requests being written up, and contribution from many industry leaders. The voting indentified and prioritized 37 features. The top 10 are related to vector graphics, security, performance, layout, rich text editing, Comet, audio and video. Among all the feature requests, 2D Drawing/Vector Graphics is clearly the most desired feature by the community. It received most votes (110 people voted for it), and highest total score (over 10% higher than the second feature request). Looks like that it is time for all browsers, in particular, IE, to seriously consider supporting standards-based vector graphics."

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  1. "Override Back Button Event"??? by PontifexPrimus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ok, I'm normally a peaceful person, but if someone invents a way to trap me on a page and disable my back button I'll hunt that guy down and kill him. Seriously. I understand that AJAX doesn't play well with the back button, but if this cancellation of functionality is implemented so that every site can deploy it easily it will break the web as we know it.

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    1. Re:"Override Back Button Event"??? by Mongoose+Disciple · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Do a lot of web development? This is one feature I would love -- users can completely destroy how a web app works just by clicking on the back button and asking "where'd all my data go?"

      They sure can. This might put the onus on you as the web developer to build a smarter app. Or to not build that particular as a web browser app at all. You've got options, and it's not like the back button is a new feature that's surprised you and thrown off your assumptions.

  2. The ONLY thing that is needed is... by JustShootThemAll · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The ONLY thing that has to be added, and needs to be added about ten years ago, is a date input field in forms.

    One that is locale-aware (DD-MM-YYYY, MM-DD-YYYY, or whatever you're locale used). Currently you have to jump through several hoops and it is near impossible to get a foolproof date input.

  3. Re:"Community" ? by maxume · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Except for AJAX...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest#History_and_support

    I mean, they didn't come up with the cute name, but they did package the technology first.

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