Here is the audio/podcast from, by far, the most entertaining /interesting panel I attended at SXSW Interactive. The topic: Browser Wars. The speakers and/or members of the panel:
Brendan Eich invented JavaScript and is CTO of Mozilla; Chris Wilson worked on every version of IE that you’ve used; Charles McCathieNevile is the public face of standards at Opera. And Arun Ranganathan moderated the discussion and tried (unsuccessfully) to keep them all civil. The panelists take frequent snipes at Apple/Safari, who chose not to send a representative for the conversation.
Once again, it’s about the ingredients that constitute a Web application, and who’s putting them in their browsers for us developers to build stuff on. Proprietary technology again competes against open standards. This panel will ask the hot questions to the browser titans - Firefox, Microsoft, Apple, and Opera. What’s with HTML5? And Silverlight and other proprietary stuff? And who’s building what feature into JavaScript? And what about the mobile web?
June 25th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
I remember that session, was standing room only 15 minutes as like 2 other sessions canceled and folks crowded in.
Amusing to say the least, not sure I agreed with their Apple bashing regarding using safari on the iPhone.
Sure, we have to design for the classic mobile web and iphone separately now, but how is that any different from designing for 3-5 browsers on the desktop?