browser as platform

Browser as a Platform

Kai Feng Zhang

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Why as Platform

• Easy to deployment• Simple UI programming• Concise HTML• HTML 5 Push• Openness• JavaScript Engine• Thread Support• Desktop Integration

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Easy to deployment

• Zero-install• User trust• Less puzzled• Easy-to-use

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Simple Web UI

• Hard-to-implement– Overlapping windows– Complex dialog– Deep tree menu– etc...

For customers, get easily and no training

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Concise HTML

• Simple to modify, forge, and embed video• Even debug outside of dev environment• Flat learning curve• comply with Postel's law

– Be conservative in what you do; be liberal in what you accept from others.

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HTML 5• Descriptive Markup: <header>, <nav>, <

article>, <footer>• Web Forms 2.0• New API, such as for <audio>, <video>• <canvas>• etc...

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Openness

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Faster Javascript Engins

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Web Workers

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Desktop Integration

Thanks

Supplementary

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Mobile Platform & Browser

• Google Android• Opera Mini• Apple Safari• Nokia• MS Internet Explorer• Mozilla Fennec