[Pointrel-discuss] Slashdot | Key Web App Standard Approaches Consensus

[Paul D. F. <pdf...@ku...>]

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/03/13/1659223/Key-Web-App-Standard-Approaches-Consensus
""Browser makers, grappling with outmoded technology and a vision to rebuild 
the Web as a foundation for applications, have begun converging on a 
seemingly basic but very important element of cloud computing. That ability 
is called local storage, and the new mechanism is called Indexed DB. Indexed 
DB, proposed by Oracle and initially called WebSimpleDB, is largely just a 
prototype at this stage, not something Web programmers can use yet. But 
already it's won endorsements from Microsoft, Mozilla, and Google, and 
together, Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome account for more than 90 
percent of the usage on the Net today. 'Indexed DB is interesting to both 
Firefox and Microsoft, so if we get to the point where we prototype it and 
want to ship it, it will have very wide availability,' said Chris Blizzard, 
director of evangelism for Mozilla. ... Microsoft publicly endorsed Indexed 
DB on its IE blog: 'Together with Mozilla, we're excited about a new design 
for local storage called Indexed DB. We think this is a great solution for 
the Web,' said program manager Adrian Bateman.""
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20000376-264.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/IndexedDB/
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/03/09/Working-with-the-HTML5-Community.aspx

IndexedDB has aspects of some Pointrel system versions.

--Paul Fernhout
http://www.pdfernhout.net/
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The biggest challenge of the 21st century is the irony of technologies of 
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