Is the Open Web the Platform for Tomorrow

3 Reasons: Deployment, Openness, Lazy Text

Monopolies: Good / Bad?

Monopolies: Good / Bad? Monopolies are a form of Absolute Power (and that’s not good)

A mono-culture is easier for the developers

A mono-culture is easier for the developers (but the goal is to be better for the users)

Plug-ins: Good / Bad?

Plug-ins: Good / Bad? A plugin is just a ‘browser’ in a browser

The History of the Web

100 3.0 Netscape Usage Share 4.0 75 4.5 2.0 50 4.8 5.0 25 6.0 1.0 7.0 0 ‘93 ‘94 ‘95 ‘96 ‘97 ‘98 ‘99 ‘00 ‘01 ‘02 ‘03 ‘04 ‘05 ‘06 ‘07 ‘08

If the Netscape developers were not in the safety of a monopoly; Would they have chosen the risky rewrite path?

100 U5.0 M5.2 8.0 75 U4.0 M5.0 7.0 (U3) M4.5 6.0 M4.0 5.5 50 M3 5.0 M2.1 4.0 3.0 M2 25 2.0 1.5 1.0 0 ‘95 ‘96 ‘97 ‘98 ‘99 ‘00 ‘01 ‘02 ‘03 ‘04 ‘05 ‘06 ‘07 ‘08

6 years 6 years 1996 2002 2008 16 major releases of IE 2 major releases of IE? Across 4 platforms Now only on Windows IE got to 90% market share in 2002

4 things the web needs to carry on winning ...

Signs of Disfunction Zillions of toolkits are a sign that something is wrong. If browsers were perfect we wouldn’t need Dojo or DWR or any of the other toolkits © Sitepen Inc. 2008. All Rights Reserved

Reliability Local or Global? •Depending on small scale reliability can hurt •Large scale reliability requires anticipation of failure •Markup deﬁnes the Open Web through reliability © Sitepen Inc. 2008. All Rights Reserved

Reliability The web has some great features borrowed from Unix •Small, independent units •Linked through debuggable text based protocols It adds features from living things •The ability to cope with failure •That can adapt when the world changes © Sitepen Inc. 2008. All Rights Reserved

Trust What do you worry about when using the web? •Web worms •Privacy invasion •Data in transit •Identity Theft •Browser Security •How to build something trustable © Sitepen Inc. 2008. All Rights Reserved

Trust What does the web need? •Content Restrictions •An anti CSRF marker for cookies •Sandboxing •Less brittle models of building relationships •SMASH, XIP, etc. © Sitepen Inc. 2008. All Rights Reserved

Momentum Web Standards: •Not all have been transparent •Working groups break down when the participants don’t play ball •Adding IQ to a large group reduces the IQ of the group •Working groups don’t test for ﬁtness © Sitepen Inc. 2008. All Rights Reserved

What if we don’t get the tools we need? Toolkits Flash Gears

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Is the Open Web the Platform for Tomorrow

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