What's next web 2.0?
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What's next web 2.0? Johnnie , 980km.com, well explained something about: web 2.0 doesn't exists, USER 2.0 is what is happening: shortly, users are more experienced to web!
We are using the same technology as some years ago: Javascript, HTML interface, some flash.. and much more interaction. Ok, maybe today we named that different. Javascript is jquery, or mootools. HTML is XHTML. Flash is faster and richer but it's always flash...and the net is faster. But all these 'magic' happens always inside browsers. UH? browsers?
(from wikipedia) A web browser is a software application which enables a user to display and interact with text, images, videos, music and other information typically located on a Web page at a website on the World Wide Web or a local area network.
Hey, people! Browsers were built to surf the net, to "simply interact" with information not to run whole (complex) applications (i.e. you cannot run a 'background' application...)!
See this screenshot. After a day of work, with 2 gmail account opened, I'm editing a googledoc (this post) and have other 12 tabs opened... firefox 3 eats RAM up: 700+ MB!! how could be different?. Poor firefox..
Did you hear about XUL OR XIML . They were (or are..?) an attempt to bring more responsiveness and lightness to "web applications". The wrong side of these technologies (IMHO) is that they run once again inside a browser. We have to start to say "goodbye" to browsers, for moving ahead.
I think we need something lighter (and most powerful) than a browser. An "interface framework" is what is missing now. Data pop from the web everywhere and don't think only to "html", think about rss feeds, videos, mp3 streaming, podcast, "torrent streaming" or VOIP. Data are everywhere. We just need a "catch all" interface framework for developers.
Data resides on the internet-and user drives (MODEL). Logic can be managed by "remote API",i mean in different servers (CONTROLLER). Visualization is managed by a smart interface,not a browser...(VIEW).So web is evolving to a big "MVC" pattern and since the internet really has a huge amount of DATA and many companies already offer remote API, the next killer application will be a software that can help developers to build rich, fast, responsive interfaces manipulating different kind of data, not only text and photo -remeber that for videos in the browser you use flash!....
ADOBE AIR seems to go in this direction. Only time will tell what's next web 2.0!
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Thanks for the tip. I did not notice this.
Actually it uses "Adobe flash" for that (or am i wrong?), so it's not an "open standard" and it's not a good thing having a "closed" standard for that ;-)
Actually, ximl can run stand alone without browser.
And it can even navigate from site to site inside..