Entries from February 2007 ↓

So tomorrow is Independence day in the country where I live, no gringos it’s not 4 of July, and yes the rest of the world has an independence day too, and it’s not the same as yours.

I got two complains about this

• I have to come to”work”

• Why “holidays” are supposed to be free of work? Assuming this is because we’ll use the day to remember that glorious day in the pass where “we” <insert reason here> which in this case is “got rid of our invaders”. but that’s another post….

Going back to #1 in my “work” I get the 4 of July off, is it so I can do #2?, which gives an interesting match of what is actually happening… for some reason it reminded me the background story of Blood Diamond, a little side note, think about which of the last two links you clicked, to find out what I was talking about, you will need it later. History tells that the capitalist “west world” loves diamonds and some people in Africa found it to be a very good way to finance civil war, and the examples of how bad things can get are all over the place.

Now all that is ancient history it happen on the 20th century today people don’t kill each other because of ideals (they just take turns at power), today there is no slavery (just dead end jobs), today there is no mayor displacement of population (just the inability to go anywhere since a plane ticket cost half the salary of a “professional”), they are no external masters (just corporations), and of course people had hope for a better tomorrow (today people are happy with Conformism.

So what all has to do with independence day? Back then in 1844 people had ideals things where going to be done, progress was coming. We as a nation where going to new unexplored places. We where going to try something new and exiting and everything that was done wrong was going to be done right this time (well at least they though so). We will never have a new master, they said, we will not work for them because we are cheaper then manufacturing good on their native countries, our leaders will not make deals to give discounts to foreigners so they come to our country for profit, our national resources will not be exploited anymore, the crucial industries in our country will not be traded by foreigners without our goverment intervention, they will not abuse our women, we will be free. And they did until Apathy took over.

In my one of my firefox tabs today this showed up. Is a small article by the great scifi writter Isaac Asimov, which latter I found out was a great scientist too.

http://www.haverford.edu/writingprogram/Asimov.html

you may also want to check out jj’s post on another one of his great writtings. And of course http://www.asimovonline.com/

lets start with a wikiquote “in computer science, a user interface that allows navigation of objects with a connecting structure”, from Browser, Now most people when saying “browser” they refer to a Web Browser, now the only real difference is that the Web browser is specialized in reading html and anything related to it; therefore a web browser is just a UI to look at data, which if you look at it is the same thing most desktop applications do.

webapps now

Today webapplications are basicallly a db, and a logic layer that translate the db into something the web browser undestands. The best combination of this right now is implemented as xhtml + CSS with javascript async calls that return formatted XML that gets inserted by DOM manipulation into the original xhtml file, of couse the last part is the “heat” webapps are currently getting because today they are finally not slow.

Here are the current problems they have

• session management, the current implementation of this is very hackish
• offline access, most browsers suck at this and they can’t catch most data that is transfer today.
• of course 3D graphics is out of the question, since this is a whole new realm, although what could happen

webapps in the future

browsers are going to grow into more complex platforms the first steps are firefox extensions take something like flock which is a totally different app yet still firefox, or kupu that powers plone’s editor, look at it in action here (warning huge download) look at some of the most interesting extensions like allpeers

Now this is just the beggining lots of browsers are in the making like venice pro Joost, songbird and the democracy player to name a flew.

and many more will come…

So yes green IMO webapps are the future, it’s just that we don’t know what they are going to evolve into.