The Future of Browsers
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Date: Friday, September 19
Time: 11:00 - 11:50AM
Location: 1A08 & 10
Track: Development
Tags Development
In many ways browsers have stagnated for years. It appears that we are coming out of the barren years, and with the sped up development of Firefox, WebKit, Opera, and even IE 8, we could be seeing a renaissance of the Web as a whole. The browser is the gateway to the Web, and as it evolves, we as Web developers can do more and more.
We have representatives from browsers themselves, as well as other folk, as we explore the future of browsers and where the Web is going in this panel. What do they see as the important blockers? How can we get past them? How can we stop JavaScript 2 from becoming the Web’s Perl 6?
Come with your own questions, as we get some time to chat with the people that matter…. the developers building the front door to your application.
Comments
Agreed with RJ on all points. Ajaxian guys had good control of the direction of the discussion. The Q&A was both highly entertaining and informative. Hopefully next time there will be less reason to harp on IE :)
What a star-studded cast! Ajaxian guys started the questions off good, with some pointed questions at the panel. Then that is where it fell off. What did I get out of the session? Nothing. Well, not really nothing...but most of the questions from people were stupid and those that were good questions, really did not get answered. It was fun though! It was almost like a rip-session on Chris from Microsoft.
Let's face it community, we have to build web applications that work on IE....attending the session and bashing the lead IE developer is not going to help. Expressing your concerns (as one person did) and having the crowd respond with cheers, shows the community is looking towards Microsoft to become more of a standards base browser. Think of how quickly development in the browser would accelerate if we had a common platform to work with.
It was a great opportunity to see Brendan - he looks nothing like his Wikipedia picture! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich Someone who got a good photo of him should submit it to Wikipedia. :)
Web 2.0 Committee - do this again next year.