Next Gen Browsers
(Posted on 01-Sep-08)OK... we could talk about individual features but that isn't going to help us understand what the driving features are in the next generation features of browsers. IE and Mozilla tend to be leading the way with IE 8 and the Mozilla Ubiquity project. In a nutshell it's about user controlled collaboration. It is about the user controlling integration and information in his own way.
So, what is the point? Next generation web sites should be thinking the way next generation browsers are headed. Does your site allow users to gather information and use it in a friendly collaborative way? How easy is it for them to pick pieces of information and share in a social network of choice? We have a project on RiaForge called cfOpenSocial. Send me a message if this is something you are interested in helping get to the community as an itnegrated library running in ColdFusion. If not look at what others are doing and make sure your site isn't going to be viewed as 'anti-social'.
Yes, the next features of the browser focus on two major concepts. They focus on being social and collaboration. Of course change helps keep us IT guys working... so in addition to giving more to the users that is good for us!