What Do You Want On Future Browsers?

What Do You Want On Future Browsers? 628

Posted by timothy on Monday June 30, 2008 @03:33PM from the fewer-crashes dept.

Coach Wei writes "An industry wishlist for future browsers has been collected and developed by OpenAjax Alliance. Using wiki as an open collaboration tool, the feature list now lists 37 separate feature requests, covering a wide range of technology areas, such as security, Comet, multimedia, CSS, interactivity, and performance. The goal is to inform the browser vendors about what the Ajax developer community feels are most important for the next round of browsers (i.e., FF4, IE9, Safari4, and Opera10) and to provide supplemental details relative to the feature requests. Currently, the top three voted features are: 2D Drawing/Vector Graphics, The Two HTTP Connection Limit Issue, and HTML DOM Operation Performance In General . OpenAjax Alliance is calling for everyone to vote for his/her favorite features. The alliance also strongly encourages people to comment on the wiki pages for each of the existing features and to add any important new features that are not yet on the list."

On a related note, an anonymous reader writes "The Tao of Mac has put up pretty interesting list of five things that are still wrong with browsers these days, and I have to wonder — with things like AIR starting to be accepted by developers, do we still need the browser at all?"

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Personally I want... (Score:4, Funny)

by Verdatum ( 1257828 ) writes: on Monday June 30, 2008 @03:35PM (#24005637)

Laserbeams....oh yeah...and Ninjas!!!

Re:Personally I want... (Score:4, Funny)

by andrewd18 ( 989408 ) writes: on Monday June 30, 2008 @03:36PM (#24005669)

No, no, you want frickin' ninjas with frickin' laser beams on their heads. That's obviously superior to individual ninjas and laser beams.

Force feedback (Score:5, Funny)

by nuzak ( 959558 ) writes: on Monday June 30, 2008 @03:37PM (#24005697) Journal

Teledildonics. Mmm.

Re:Personally I want... (Score:5, Funny)

by Zencyde ( 850968 ) writes: <Zencyde@gmail.com> on Monday June 30, 2008 @03:37PM (#24005699)

Laser beams? Hell, I want porn! Porn with frickin' laser beams!

Why only 2D Vectors? (Score:5, Funny)

by StCredZero ( 169093 ) writes: on Monday June 30, 2008 @03:38PM (#24005709)

Give me 3D vector graphics, and let me play Battlezone in the browser!

FF3 (Score:5, Funny)

by pla$+!k ( 1314047 ) writes: on Monday June 30, 2008 @03:39PM (#24005723)

Firefox 3 ought to be enough for everybody

Slashdot effect (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday June 30, 2008 @03:39PM (#24005735)

First of all, I want them to fix the Slashdot effect so I can read about the other probems.....

Re:I want what most users want. (Score:5, Funny)

by Angostura ( 703910 ) writes: on Monday June 30, 2008 @03:44PM (#24005827)

You'll be wanting Lynx, my friend.

Re:Fast and clean (Score:5, Funny)

by Daimanta ( 1140543 ) writes: on Monday June 30, 2008 @03:48PM (#24005901) Journal

"Fast and clean"
Guess what ideal webbrowser and ideal hookers have in common.

Modular design (Score:3, Funny)

by lazyDog86 ( 1191443 ) writes: on Monday June 30, 2008 @03:57PM (#24006071)

I think that you have to make the design modular so the ninjas can be made available either with or without laser beams. While we're at it, we will really need an open standard bus supporting ninja-laser interconnectivity. I should think that we could interest an IEEE working group in such an activity. It's important that we develop a generic enough command set so that our ninjas and lasers can interact with as rich a set of other devices as possible. (i.e. ninja-laser-television-beer cooler interoperability would be high on my list)

Re:Force feedback (Score:3, Funny)

by dedazo ( 737510 ) writes: on Monday June 30, 2008 @04:06PM (#24006235) Journal

That will take a while. But in the meantime, here's the best next thing [rent-a-dildo.com].

Re:Personally I want... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday June 30, 2008 @04:09PM (#24006291)

Ninja SHARKS... with lasers on their heads.

Re:Force feedback (Score:4, Funny)

by OzPeter ( 195038 ) writes: on Monday June 30, 2008 @04:20PM (#24006471)

I. Am. Now. Officially. Scared. I thought you were putting up a joke link. Ugggghhhh.

Pffft! Real men don't need Lynx. (Score:3, Funny)

by morgan_greywolf ( 835522 ) * writes: on Monday June 30, 2008 @04:34PM (#24006739) Homepage Journal

$ telnet www.google.com 80
nuff said.

Re:Fast and clean (Score:2, Funny)

by BGrif ( 1190941 ) writes: on Monday June 30, 2008 @04:36PM (#24006775)

Don't forget that they both should take up as little space in your memory as possible.

Re:stability? (Score:5, Funny)

by SatanicPuppy ( 611928 ) * writes: <Satanicpuppy.gmail@com> on Monday June 30, 2008 @04:36PM (#24006791) Journal

Wow I didn't.
*click*
*click*
*click*
*click**click**click**click**click**click**click**click**click**click*
Mmmmmmm. I need a moment...alone...

Re:I want what most users want. (Score:5, Funny)

by eldepeche ( 854916 ) writes: on Monday June 30, 2008 @04:57PM (#24007111)

Basically, it would be really nice to never leave your web browser because all the functionality is there.

Have you considered Emacs?

A porn button (Score:3, Funny)

by roc97007 ( 608802 ) writes: on Monday June 30, 2008 @05:07PM (#24007271) Journal

It would save a lot of time.

Re:Personally I want... (Score:2, Funny)

by Cley Faye ( 1123605 ) writes: on Monday June 30, 2008 @05:47PM (#24007859) Homepage

i would like to have porn with sex ninjas and frickin' laser beams!!!1
... and sharks in the middle of this, I suppose ?

Re:Personally I want... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday June 30, 2008 @05:50PM (#24007907)

...actually, forget the laser beams!

Re:stability? (Score:1, Funny)

by dominious ( 1077089 ) writes: on Monday June 30, 2008 @06:45PM (#24008647)

wait..your web browser feeds your dog? boy i have missed a lot, has AI gone that far?

3 Kitchen sink add ons (Score:3, Funny)

by ukemike ( 956477 ) writes: on Monday June 30, 2008 @09:11PM (#24010239) Homepage

I have 3 different kitchen sink add-ons. One is really good at hot and cold water, one is great at draining, but it crashes if you get hair in there. I use a third for dispose-all purposes.

Re:Personally I want... (Score:4, Funny)

by ultranova ( 717540 ) writes: on Monday June 30, 2008 @11:56PM (#24011507)

Laser beams? Hell, I want porn! Porn with frickin' laser beams!

Word of warning: I've seen it, and it ain't pretty.

Re:Feeping creaturitis (Score:3, Funny)

by Plutonite ( 999141 ) writes: on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @01:44AM (#24012189)

This could be a great start to the modular vs. monolithic kernel debate! Where is Tannenbaum when you need him :(

Re:Feeping creaturitis (Score:2, Funny)

by AmyRose1024 ( 1160863 ) writes: on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @08:42AM (#24014283)

Have you tried Lynx?

Re:Not just support for SVG, but mixed SVG/XHTML (Score:2, Funny)

by clone53421 ( 1310749 ) writes: on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @09:33AM (#24014803) Journal

However, it's possible that they will end up providing some more graceful degradation of the content, in which case users might start seeing messages like, "Sorry, this page doesn't display in Internet Explorer 10, because Internet Explorer 10 doesn't support SVG. Please use an SVG-enabled browser, such as Firefox, Safari, Opera, Konqueror, or Galeon."
I think I'd go into full cardiac arrest if I ever saw that error message from IE.

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What Do You Want On Future Browsers?

Personally I want... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Personally I want... (Score:4, Funny)

Force feedback (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Personally I want... (Score:5, Funny)

Why only 2D Vectors? (Score:5, Funny)

FF3 (Score:5, Funny)

Slashdot effect (Score:2, Funny)

Re:I want what most users want. (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Fast and clean (Score:5, Funny)

Modular design (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Force feedback (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Personally I want... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Force feedback (Score:4, Funny)

Pffft! Real men don't need Lynx. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Fast and clean (Score:2, Funny)

Re:stability? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:I want what most users want. (Score:5, Funny)

A porn button (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Personally I want... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Personally I want... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:stability? (Score:1, Funny)

3 Kitchen sink add ons (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Personally I want... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Feeping creaturitis (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Feeping creaturitis (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Not just support for SVG, but mixed SVG/XHTML (Score:2, Funny)

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