A story of
- Firefox,
- Java,
- and the Industry.

Disclaimer
Beware!
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This presentation contains bad
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words:
Corporate
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IE5
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Browser war I
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Java
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MozSwing
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Ready?
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Disclaimer (again)
Beware!
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In this presentation, Firefox usually
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means XulRunner
(But who cares outside of this
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room?)

Yet another day in the industry
1999
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« - Let’s code a web app with powerful
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client side features »
 « - Great! Let’s code it for … IE5 »
2009
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« - The project is ready, at last ! »
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« - Great! Let’s try it on my new
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Windows Vista »

Facing the truth
The browser war is still painful,
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several years after.
There is a need for a true corporate
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browser.
A message to managers:
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NO! IE is not the corporate browser.
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Firefox, the corporate browser?
Answer:
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…
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YES!!!
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Ooops, well, I mean NO!!!!
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Why not?
Problem 1: legacy!!!
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What about that IE5 app?
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What about that ERP which requires IE?
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Problem 2: poor marketing
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« Firefox is yet another browser »
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NO! Firefox is a Platform!
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Firefox as a Platform
Firefox is open source
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Firefox is OS-agnostic
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Firefox has XUL
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Firefox is plug-in based
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Firefox is embeddable
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Firefox can accept Java « scripting »
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Java???
Ask yourself:
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What platform is trully universal on the
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client side, in the industry?
Answer:
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The JRE.
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Reason:
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Unknown but it is a fact!
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And now… the corporate browser
Firefox is embeddable as a Swing
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component (cf MozSwing)
Java apps are one-click deployable
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Java libs are huge and accepted
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== Firefox+Java is the corporate
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browser!

Summary
Thanks to MozSwing, Java and
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Firefox can work together
A tremendous client-side platform:
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OS agnostic
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Instant deployment
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No more browser incompatibilities
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Huge client-side features
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Conclusion
MozSwing should be supported by
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the Mozilla foundation

Who I am
Datao.net
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A Semantic Web Browser.
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A semantic client-side platform:
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Embedded Semantic Web Stack
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Java Web Start for deployment
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XulRunner as the UI
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The feature I would love to see:
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Templates in the HTML pipeline.
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