文档介绍：Getting There From Here
Dylan Schiemann
CEO, SitePen, Inc.
April, 2009
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The Roadmap
Where do we want to go?
Where are we now?
What’s our rate-of-change?
Why?
What strategies can affect that rate?
What are the costs?
What should we do right now to get there?
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Technology decisions are often made in the shadow of sunk-cost fallacies and perceptions
that don’t accurately reflect reality. The goal of this talk is to help examine where the world
of in-browser UI technology is at the moment and where, based on the evidence, we can
expect it to be in the near future. Evolution of browsers over the next year or two. How do
we evolve as munity
We Want Apps That Are:
Web-delivered
Affordable to build
Useful and engaging
Benefits of desktop and web
Search
Link
Remix
Widgets
Mash-ups and Portals
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In short, the browser “won”. New applications are primarily deployed through the context of a
web browser today, and so as applications migrate to the web, we continue to face the reality
that the web makes some things easy and many things hard. The things that it makes easy
are the things for which the web was initially adopted. Applications that have eeded on
the web have done so in part because of their natural afnity patibility with the
perspective of applications that are searchable, distributed, and portable/survivable.
App authors have given up a lot to shoe-horn many apps into this view of the world, and
there continues to be a natural tension between fidelity of experience and the other benefits
that web apps provide.
Where Are We Now?
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Before we can examine how things are going to change, we need to get square regarding our
current situation. The reality of modern browser-based apps is at once heartening and
depressing.
It Depends
Well served:
Apps with static(ish) con