- From: Jeff Sonstein <jeffs@it.rit.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:22:06 -0500
- To: public-bpwg@w3.org
- Cc: Magnus Lönnroth <magnus.lonnroth@ericsson.com>, "Scheppe, Kai-Dietrich" <k.scheppe@telekom.de>
On Feb 23, 2008, at 10:18 AM, public-bpwg@w3.org wrote: > All of these things are capable of consuming data expressed in HTML > and javascript. that seems to me to be the key point... data expressed as HTML or some XML variant and using W3C technologies for dealing w that data include DOM (data model) and CSS (view) and Javascript/ECMAScript (controller) one of the exciting thing about "webapps" and "widgets" to my students is that the two both use the same technologies as generic Web pages... they just use them in different run-time contexts so they (the students) can apply the same knowledge to building within both run-time contexts now... on the desk-/palm-top or within the browser one of the exciting things about "webapps" and "widgets" to me as a teacher is the zillions of people who already know how to build them (and just do not realize that yet) USD 0.02 from jeffs -- "Listen," said my father. "The most important thing here is not to confuse a group within an entity for the entity itself. Europeans, Muslims, European Muslims — most people just want to live in peace. For us to start believing Europe is represented by its right-wing fanatics would be as wrong as for them to believe Islam is represented by our right-wing fanatics." - Kamila Shamsie - ============ Prof. Jeff Sonstein Director, MS-IT Program http://www.it.rit.edu/~jxs/ http://ariadne.iz.net/~jeffs/ http://chw.ariadne.mobi/ http://www.xvrml.net/ http://ariadne.iz.net/~jeffs/jeffs.asc http://www.it.rit.edu/~jxs/emailDisclaimer.html
Received on Saturday, 23 February 2008 21:22:28 UTC