Comments on: Will browsers ever deliver applications instead of documents?

By: The adventures of Coccobill » Blog Archive » The Struggle for the Sould of the Web

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:34:21 +0000

[...] constraining people from developping applications delivered through the web (see here and here and here for a summary of my opinion on this topic). In that sense, Chrome may be the start of an answer [...]

By: Scott Barnes

Scott Barnes — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:57:10 +0000

It’s a hard sell though. I’ve told others about my previous posts on MossyBlog and I get confused looks – what do you mean the browser is dead…how can we possibly surf the net without it.

The thing is we are, we do it daily but the browser we know it right now is evolving to the next piece, whatever that looks like. All major software companies get this and it’s why concepts like “SOA” or “SaaS” exist, as they hint in this direction.

What the end agent looks like who really knows – but i think the internet explorers, firefoxs, operas etc aren’t the right fit.

Scott Barnes
Developer Evangelist
Microsoft.
(MossyBlog.com)

By: Peter Fisk

Peter Fisk — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 04:01:32 +0000

Stefano,

This is a good summary of the current state of Internet applications.

I think that the way forward is Lisp running in the browser on top of Flash or WPF. There are some examples on my site.

Cheers,
– Peter Fisk