Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
A better web app client!
Author: Ian Beatty Posted: 12/11/1998; 6:09:44 AM Topic: What if there were a third browser? Msg #: 1107 (In response to 560) Prev/Next: 1106 / 1108
Looking over the responses to Dave's original "What if there were a third browser?" post, I've come to a realization: The future is in interactive web applications (look where Frontier is going). Let's get beyond the idea of web browsers as *browsers*! The current Mosaic-based model of a web browser is well suited for looking at static sites, but clumsy as a web app client.Maybe we ARE stuck with the "forms" standard as the only good way to interact with a web app server. If so, browser implementations of forms interfaces could certainly be improved (e.g. Dave's desire for better text-editing capabilities). And hopefully, better standards will arise.
Just a thought: build a browser with additional "application interface" elements which can communicate with an app server via an XML-RPC standard. Sidestep HTML's limitations entirely!
IMVHO, of course.
-- Ian
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- Re: A better web app client!, Lawrence Lee, 12/11/1998; 1:19:26 PM
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