- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 14:06:37 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@tu-clausthal.de>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Christoph [ISO-8859-1] Päper wrote: > > *Ian Hickson*: >> >> Any browser that doesn't aim to be an application platform would find >> itself severely locked out of large parts of the Web. > > If that was true, why isn't there a WAL, a Web Application Language? It might > be true for intranets, though. Why indeed. http://www.w3.org/2004/04/webapps-cdf-ws/ At the moment most Web-based applications abuse HTML, CSS and the DOM to quite impressive lengths. See, e.g., voidwars.com for an example of a quite impressive application delivered using current Web technologies. -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL U+1047E /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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