Monday, 16 March 2009 at 11:30AM
Panel:
- Arun Ranganathan - Mozilla
- Chris Wilson - Microsoft
- Brendan Eich (created javascript) - Mozilla Foundation
- Charles McCathieNevile - Opera Software
- Darin Fisher - Google
Summary: We’re doing *so darn much* with the Web platform these days, from cross-domain access mechanisms to new drawing and graphics tools. But in the end, we still have to deal with different web browsers. This discussion brings the leads from Mozilla (Firefox), Microsoft (IE), Google (Chrome) and Opera (Opera) together for yet another incendiary discussion about the future of the web.
Apple is not represented on the panel because they refuse to be on it. C’mon, Apple.
Wow, this panel has lots of cred. This panel is also a podcast. I will find it and link it here.
about:engines
Google Chrome guy
They did not want to support there own rendering engine. They chose Webkit because of its focused simplicity and it is not an entire platform like Gecko.
about:specs
Microsoft guy: What is going on with Silverlight?
Opera: If we want a bigger market to play in then standards need to be adopted. That is why Opera participates in so many standards working groups.
HTML5
about:scripts
about:security
Wilson: The reason Microsoft pushed out their click-jacking and XSS security is that they felt they could not wait for an entire product cycle.
Chrome guy: security = privacy protection and computer protection. In Chrome, when a file uri is put in it launches an entirely new rendering engine to keep it walled off.
Isolating on domain boundaries is a sticky problem.
Hammering out standards has all teh elements of a Prisoner’s Dilemna.
about:questions