The web may be breaking free from the browser. So what does this mean to developers and how will this effect the web development process (and my first Erlang Web App)?
<p><pre><code> > And, if concepts like Ubiquity take hold the
> web may break free of the browser entirely.
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Grammar aside, since when does Mozilla Ubiquity intend to break free from the browser??<p>I wish I could vote this post down.
Although he actually calls his article 'Goodbye Browsers', I think he actually means 'Goodbye websites as islands of data'. He talks about data coming from different sources over the web, and getting consumed by applications which may not know where the data is coming from. There's nothing in that which precludes the browser, as commenters here and on his site have noted.<p>In fact, that's the premise of Web Services, mashups, and Facebook applications, most of which involve the browser...
Au contraire, given the current trend (HTML5, Google Chrome and V8...) I would say that the browsers will become omnipresents, if it's not already true !
The browser is the simplest interface for presenting and connecting disparate applications and information.<p>No, it won't go away in the next hundred years.