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+1 for Data mining, concurrency, FP. Another one: HTML 5 and related. This probably won't make as much of a splash as AJAX did a few years ago but some of the
by ratsbane 17y ago
+1 for Data mining, concurrency, FP.
Another one: HTML 5 and related.
This probably won't make as much of a splash as AJAX did a few years ago but some of the new things you will be able to do in a web browser present an opportunity to improve on older web apps: e.g. location and gravitation APIs, web sockets, multi-file uploads and drag-and-drop.
Biggest problem with HTML 5: it's going to be years before complete market penetration - but FF, Chome, and Safari all have much tighter upgrade cycles than IE. For intranet stuff or anywhere you have a reasonably captive user base, why not offer better features to your users if they upgrade?
Side benefit: it's much more fun to be coding for the future than for the past.
- nzmsv 17y agoAJAX originated as an obscure hack put in IE by a Microsoft employee. The only reason it made such a splash later is that other people tried it, found they could use it to do cool things, and then spread the word. HTML5 could make just as big a splash. Someone making local storage work seamlessly in a large webapp would be noteworthy, and take away the biggest problem with Chrome OS: can't work offline.
- aaronblohowiak 17y agos/someone/google