Vector Graphics Lead Wish List For Future Browsers 321
Coach Wei writes "Community voting results and a summary report have been published from
OpenAjax Alliance's recent "community wishlist for future browsers" effort. When the voting closed on July 13th, 222 people participated in this open community initiative, with 143 people voted, 55 feature requests being written up, and contribution from many industry leaders. The voting indentified and prioritized 37 features. The top 10 are related to vector graphics, security, performance, layout, rich text editing, Comet, audio and video. Among all the feature requests, 2D Drawing/Vector Graphics is clearly the most desired feature by the community. It received most votes (110 people voted for it), and highest total score (over 10% higher than the second feature request). Looks like that it is time for all browsers, in particular, IE, to seriously consider supporting standards-based vector graphics."
Re:"Community" ? (Score:5, Informative)
Internet Explorer is the only major browser to NOT implement SVG and Canvas. Which is a major failure on Microsoft's part. One might almost say that they're intentionally trying to prevent the adoption of standards that could replace their proprietary APIs like VML and ActiveX. Almost, anyway. It's not like Microsoft has a history of not implementing the DOM standards or anything.
(*Hint!* That was sarcasm. Microsoft fails miserably at implementing the DOM2 standards.)
Re:"Community" ? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:"Override Back Button Event"??? (Score:3, Informative)
There kinda is -- you hook into the "onunload" event on a web page, prompting the user with a dialog. It's how web apps like Meebo.com handle this problem.
Re:Damn graphic artists... (Score:4, Informative)
Trust me, that's why it's called JavaScript object "notation" -- it's not actually a JavaScript object. You still have the extra step of converting it out of string form when you get it from the server.
Re:Hopeful in regards to Silverlight? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:"Community" ? (Score:5, Informative)
I mean, they didn't come up with the cute name, but they did package the technology first.
True, but their version is based on ActiveX, while everyone else used XMLHttpRequest. See here: http://www.w3schools.com/Ajax/ajax_browsers.asp [w3schools.com]
Re:"Community" ? (Score:4, Informative)
Yes, because they created it before XMLHttpRequest ever existed as a standard. They took a shot at implementing XMLHttpRequest for IE7 but apparently botched it a bit.
The point is, Microsoft created the technology and then it ended up in other browsers.
Re:"Override Back Button Event"??? (Score:2, Informative)
Firefox kind of has that. You can force every link to open in the current tab/window on regular left click. Use middle click for opening a link in a new tab/window. About:config:
browser.link.open_newwindow 1
browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction 0
I use that because I like predictability. No need to wonder whether a link will pop up a new window or not.
Re:Personal Info Insertion (Score:1, Informative)
Work is happening on this. Google infocard, cardspace, identity metasystem, etc.
Vector Graphics (Score:2, Informative)
Re:"Override Back Button Event"??? (Score:4, Informative)
The back button works fine, and without data loss potential, if you follow a simple recipe:
* Never return a page from a POST; redirect to a GET instead (after processing the POST).
* Never modify business data from a GET.
* Never allow pages containing dynamic data to be cached.
Follow those rules, and every page in your app will be safely bookmarkable and play nicely with the back button.
Re:Hopeful in regards to Silverlight? (Score:3, Informative)
The Register (specifically, the Open Season webcast) did an interview with some managerial type or another from Adobe, who stated that FP10 will have a same day release for Linux (Though I assume Linux's will come an hour later, just on principle.)
Re:"Override Back Button Event"??? (Score:2, Informative)