HTML is so 1990
Yesterday I was on a meeting with some people from Microsoft and other companies working with social media and communication etc. We talked about the future of the web. I have developed web applications since 1995 or something like that and I’m so tired of is HTML, CSS and client-side script. During the last years people have done incredible web application with technology like AJAX to increase user experience. But HTML, Client-side script and the Browser we are using have limitations, it takes time to build application with rich and good user experience, some stuff are impossible to do because of a limitation both in the HTML, CSS, Client-side script and browser to create Rich Internet Applications. We need a new solutions, a new better way to build applications, and we have two “tools” we can use today to create richer web/internet applications, Flash and Silverlight.
More and more applications are moving to the web and more and more need better user experience. For me the Internet Browsers are moving far far away from me, I start to use more richer client-side tools. For example Messenger, TweetDeck, LiveWriter, Blog readers, RSS readers etc. I don’t use the Browser as much as I did before, for example I don’t use the Browser to write my blog post or publish pictures to the cloud, I use richer applications. Now when Silverlight 3.0 can run out-of-browser, and the increasing demands on richer clients and also the need to create better user experience I think we need to start moving forward. The Browser and HTML will still exists in the near future, but I think it’s time for web developers to take the next step toward RIA.