Upcoming Vanx Talk: The Future of the Web: Rich Clients, Rich Browsers, Rich Portals

Hi,

  I am the speaker for the next VanX meeting on
Tuesday, March 27th in Vancouver, Canada. 

  My talk title is:

  The Future of the Web: Rich Clients, Rich Browsers,
Rich Portals: A Look at XUL, XForms, XWT, Curl and
other emerging technologies

  There's no entrance free or sign-up. Everyone is
welcome. For details check out the VanX website at
http://www.vanx.org/next_meeting.htm

  - Gerald

PS: Here's my upcoming talk's summary/abstract:

A new gold rush is underway fulled by the Web Services
revolution that demands rich clients that go beyond
HTML 4.0/XHML 1.0 avoiding excessive
server-roundtrips, offering offline-usage, supporting
drag and drop, rich graphics and widget sets and much
more.

Gerald will survery the state of rich cross plattform
UI toolkits such as Gtk+, Qt, Swing and others and
their XML usage before making the case why a
XUL+XForms+SVG+XHTML+CSS combo is the future and why
alternative "HTML killer" technologies such as Curl,
Rebol, XWT or Flash fall short and won't take off.


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