Key Web App Standard Approaches Consensus 143
suraj.sun tips a report up at CNet which begins:
"Browser makers, grappling with outmoded technology and a vision to rebuild the Web as a foundation for applications, have begun converging on a seemingly basic but very important element of cloud computing. That ability is called local storage, and the new mechanism is called Indexed DB. Indexed DB, proposed by Oracle and initially called WebSimpleDB, is largely just a prototype at this stage, not something Web programmers can use yet. But already it's won endorsements from Microsoft, Mozilla, and Google, and together, Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome account for more than 90 percent of the usage on the Net today. 'Indexed DB is interesting to both Firefox and Microsoft, so if we get to the point where we prototype it and want to ship it, it will have very wide availability,' said Chris Blizzard, director of evangelism for Mozilla. ... Microsoft publicly endorsed Indexed DB on its IE blog: 'Together with Mozilla, we're excited about a new design for local storage called Indexed DB. We think this is a great solution for the Web,' said program manager Adrian Bateman."
Re:Piled Higher and Deeper (Score:3, Funny)
Just a little more duct tape will fix it. No need for a clean state redesign. With enough kludging, ever increasing performance of local clients and Internet connections, we'll make it work and look just like a local app did ten years ago. Some day.
- T. Roll
Re:Piled Higher and Deeper (Score:5, Funny)
> ...look just like a local app did ten years ago.
No, no, no. It will look completely different. It'll have rounded corners. Or something. I know! It'll have animated 3D shadows! How can anyone get any work done using a program that lacks animated 3D shadows?
Re:The Web is not the Net. (Score:4, Funny)
> How do you find non-Web resources on the Internet other than through search
> engines on the Web?
I use Gopher.
Re:Golden age of the web set to continue (Score:4, Funny)
Don't look now, but someone used one of those exploits to replace your comment's font.
Re:Piled Higher and Deeper (Score:3, Funny)
Just a little more duct tape will fix it. No need for a clean state redesign. With enough kludging, ever increasing performance of local clients and Internet connections, we'll make it work and look just like a local app did ten years ago. Some day.
- T. Roll
Apu: Please do not mock the power of duct tape. These are forces beyond the understanding of mere mortals.
Re:The Web is not the Net. (Score:4, Funny)
You forget spammers and botnet operators, both large and growing markets.
Well, they'll just have to abide by the new HTML standards like the rest of us. What's fair is fair.