Agenda
- The simplicity and complexity of the web.
- It used to be just HTML
- Then Javascript
- And CSS
- And million libraries and frameworks.
- Markup as a way for building UIs.
- WPF
- Server side vs client side (the loop)
- Web technologies in non-web scenarios:
- FirefoxOS
- NodeJS Desktop applications (using Node-Webkit https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit)
- Example: https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/ I've used this desktop application and liked it, and a week later discovered that it's a NodeJS app.
- Browsers as Operating Systems:
- Chromebooks
- FirefoxOS
- Single-page applications (SPA) as a way to blur the lines between web applications and desktop applications.
- Google's big push for AngluarJS is part of making web application replace desktop applications.
