Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Tue Dec 4 14:03:48 CST 2012
The web world is more than ever becoming "the" computer world. Most development is now done on the web. Whether the Cloud will eventually replace most in-house server based systems is debatable and will require much more security, management and backup features before it will be completely trustable. Apple, via Steve Jobs, stopped the whole advance of plug-in technology which was patching up browser functionality. It was not done for altruistic reasons but to stop third party application from skipping the Apple toll booth. But it did have a very important unexpected side-affect. It made browser designers dependant on open standards, superfast browsers, gave them the ability/responsibility for controlling security, that plug-in would never allow and the dominance of HTML5 and CSS3. Whether Mark Zuckerberg, likes or dislikes HTML5 is not important as the proprietary insecure plug-in world of the past is dead and dying...in fact he is trying to buck the tide. How many users will allow another vulnerable plug-in to install on their system so they can play a game or two? The other option is to use a proprietary server language. It can be built very fast but it does not take long before thousands of users will grind the whole system to a stop and then huge farms of special servers have to integrated...very expensive to own and very expensive to maintain. Those type of application solutions, on so many levels are no longer workable. The new web world is more and more evolving into distributive open standards, where data presentation is managed on the browsers and delegating servers for only managing the data marshalling, gathering and storing. http://www.thesecuritypractice.com/the_security_practice/2012/11/in-defense- of-html5-1.html Jim