A must-read by Brendan Eich, who seem to be puzzled to learn JavaScript is the worst invention of all times. Brendan, if you happen to read this, this link is for you
Evolution
The web will be backward compatible with legacies disappearing slowly. If vendor or standard bodies attempt to jump too far ahead, it will fail. New techniques with high probability of success will solve exiting problems and will be easy to use; e.g., clean solution to sessions. Hence, big new standards have little chance.
IE
Like all the other players, MS is limited by the existing web/internet; but MS is the player with most power. Techniques not implemented in IE will hardly be successful; but not every technique introduced in IE will be successful. We are living a classic in "International Relations" with Irak.
Web applications
The web was born as HTML markup language with a simple transfer protocol and it has evolved to a light operating system like the Blit terminal talking to Unix: this should be the new vision.
Next events
9-11 may-2012, CSS WG meeting, Hamburg, Germany
29 oct-2 nov 2012, W3C Technical Plenary Meeting, Lyon, France
Comments
I do like one thing about Bert Bos, he wants to use Ruby www.ruby-lang.org/
So you do take comments from Brendan, but not from me (regarding your 1.0 comment). What an insult. But fair enough ;-).
Axel: you are right... But I really tried. I am opening comments on part 1 now.
[cross posted Brendan's]
Evolution
The web will be backward compatible with legacies disappearing slowly. If vendor or standard bodies attempt to jump too far ahead, it will fail. New techniques with high probability of success will solve exiting problems and will be easy to use; e.g., clean solution to sessions. Hence, big new standards have little chance.
IE
Like all the other players, MS is limited by the existing web/internet; but MS is the player with most power. Techniques not implemented in IE will hardly be successful; but not every technique introduced in IE will be successful. We are living a classic in "International Relations" with Irak.
Web applications
The web was born as HTML markup language with a simple transfer protocol and it has evolved to a light operating system like the Blit terminal talking to Unix: this should be the new vision.