Imagine a browser of the web, by the web, and for the web. Not simply a thick client application that simply opens documents with the http:// protocol instead of file://, but one that runs web applications (efficiently!), that plays the web, that connects people across the boundaries of the silos and gives them local-like access [...]
Category Archives: What I do
Google Chrome and the future of browsers
Sep 1st – 11pm
News came today confirming Google’s plans for Chrome, its own open source browser based on Webkit.
This is big news. As far as I’m concerned, it doesn’t get much bigger than this, at least in my little shed on the internet.
I’ve been struggling to come to grips with my thoughts on this since I first [...]
The Open Web Foundation
Jul 24th – 5pm
During this morning’s keynote at OSCON, David Recordon announced the formation of the Open Web Foundation (his slides), an initiative with which I am involved, aimed at becoming something akin to a “Creative Commons for patents”, with the intention of lowering the costs and barriers to the development and adoption of open and free specifications [...]