Jon Udell Column: Why Mozilla matters: Flash and InfoPath Out To Kill The Browser
Gerald Bauer <[email protected]>
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Hi, Jon Udell - author of the O'Reilly Practical Internet Groupware book, former BYTE magazine executive editor for new media and now lead InfoWorld Test Center analyst wrote-up a Strategic Developer Column titled "Why Mozilla matters: Flash and InfoPath seek to dethrone the browser; Mozilla proves that won't be easy". Jon writes: The browser is dead. It's gone to meet its maker, shuffled off its mortal coil, and joined the bleedin' choir invisible. Macromedia knows this. Microsoft knows this. The makers of countless variations on the theme of the next-generation rich Internet client know this. Everyone knows this except the folks who build and deploy Internet apps. We surveyed them recently, and they told us last-century Web apps are not only alive and kicking, but dominant. Is that nostalgia, or a leading indicator? Jon rounds up the usual browser killer suspects for upcoming Web Services era. Jon writes about InfoPath: It's not built into Internet Explorer but it's built like Internet Exploder, relying on the same XML parser, schema processor, XSLT transformer, DOM, CSS renderer, and script engine. InfoPath can receive XML payloads from a Web services network, and inject payloads back into the network, but the data users work with is displayed, updated, and validated locally. Microsoft hasn't chosen to reposition its browser for these purposes. I guess now suprise here. Microsoft is pushing Office as the next-gen browser for the enterprise and Windows as the next-gen browser for home users. Jon concludes: As Web services redefine documents, Mozilla, an open and extensible document-handling engine, looks more strategic than ever. Indeed. What a world. Everyone is out to kill the browser to cash in on the massive web audience. The only hold out is the open source crowd. Full story @ http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/10/10/40OPstrategic_1.html - Gerald ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php