{"id":41,"date":"2002-10-17T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-17T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/wp\/?p=31"},"modified":"2002-10-17T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2002-10-17T14:32:00","slug":"whats-next-for-browsers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/2002\/10\/whats-next-for-browsers\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Next for Browsers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogstream.com\/pauls\/1034787029\/index_html\">Paul writes<\/a> that innovation in the browser ain&#8217;t dead yet.  I agree.  From a distributed systems POV, I think there&#8217;s two important things that need to happen to the browser, in addition to the richer languages that Paul talks about (and don&#8217;t forget about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-rdf-syntax\">RDF<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/owl-ref\/\">OWL<\/a>!);<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>making the browser a peer<\/li>\n<li>allowing the browser to own application state<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>The former deals with integrating a Web server into the Web browser, enabling the <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.w3.org\/Archives\/Public\/xml-dist-app\/2000Mar\/0003.html\">&#8220;Two Way Web&#8221;<\/a>, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knownow.com\/\">KnowNow<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idokorro.com\/\">Idokorro<\/a> (my company) do.<\/p>\n\n<p>The latter, related to the former, suggests that cookies can be replaced by purely client-side application state.  What this would look like, is that you&#8217;d drag-and-drop items from a browser window into a desktop-located container &#8211; for example, a shopping basket &#8211; and then to check out, you drag the container back to the page.  This keeps the session state &#8211; the basket &#8211; on the client, per <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ics.uci.edu\/~fielding\/pubs\/dissertation\/rest_arch_style.htm#sec_5_1_3\">REST&#8217;s Stateless constraint<\/a>.  This would require an extension to HTML\/XHTML to support draggable objects, as well as a means to support file upload via a drop action (i.e. targetted at some element on the page).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul writes that innovation in the browser ain&#8217;t dead yet. I agree. From a distributed systems POV, I think there&#8217;s two important things that need to happen to the browser, in addition to the richer languages that Paul talks about (and don&#8217;t forget about RDF and OWL!); making the browser a peer allowing the browser [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,40],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-architecture","tag-xml"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}