Monday, August 01, 2005
Google urges developers to embrace browsers' bleeding edge - Builder UK:
"The lead engineer for Google maps has urged fellow Web developers to abandon the lowest-common denominator approach to Web application design
The only way to transform the Web into the desktop platform of the future is to fully embrace bleeding edge features in browser software.
This advice came from the lead engineer of the Google Maps project, Lars Rasmussen.
Speaking at a conference on Web engineering in Sydney, Rasmussen said Maps' use of the XSL standard and Microsoft's VML as examples of useful technologies seldom used by Web developers. Both are only supported by certain browsers.
If a Web application takes advantage of the best technologies a user's browser can offer, then 'each individual gets the sexiest experience in their browser', he said.
'Go beyond browsers' lowest common denominator,' he advised developers..."
"The lead engineer for Google maps has urged fellow Web developers to abandon the lowest-common denominator approach to Web application design
The only way to transform the Web into the desktop platform of the future is to fully embrace bleeding edge features in browser software.
This advice came from the lead engineer of the Google Maps project, Lars Rasmussen.
Speaking at a conference on Web engineering in Sydney, Rasmussen said Maps' use of the XSL standard and Microsoft's VML as examples of useful technologies seldom used by Web developers. Both are only supported by certain browsers.
If a Web application takes advantage of the best technologies a user's browser can offer, then 'each individual gets the sexiest experience in their browser', he said.
'Go beyond browsers' lowest common denominator,' he advised developers..."
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