[Sigia-l] Future of the browser

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Joel Spolsky, someone I don't always agree with, wrote a couple of good
essays on the architectural future of app building and browser technologies,
covering pretty much the gist of a recent thread here.

"In the previous rounds of HTML enhancement, the world's great graphic
designers (like Jeffrey Zeldman) made the most noise and got us things like
CSS which allow the kind of pixel-perfect page layout that the marketing
people like, done in an intelligent way that separates content from
presentation. Kudos. They got what they wanted, mostly, and quieted down.
Now it's time for us application developers to start clamoring for the
features we need to develop great web applications. Here are some examples
of the kinds of features I'd like to see in web browsers:"
[great ones]
<http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2004/06/17.html>

And the recently controversial,

How Microsoft Lost the API War [and the Web won]
<http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html>

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