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What would you want the web to do it can’t already?

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There’s a lot of interesting things happening out there right now. HTML 5 is about to make a whole suite of new applications possible thanks to:

  • Much better rendering of graphics on the fly
  • Client-side storage of application data
  • Drag-and-drop interfaces that make web apps feel more desktop-like

But there has to be something we are missing out on that is niggling us all at the back of our collective group-think mind. Perhaps watching the Google Wave introduction got you psyched about something that suddenly became possible. Perhaps the very way the web inherently works bothers you, and you envisage a new platform.

I’m interested in hearing about it now the comments are getting a little bit of love across articles. Go crazy. Throw them in there…

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    • Written by Paul Robinson

    June 29th, 2009 at 1:00 pm

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      29 Jun 09 at 13:03

    2. Check this rather interesting HTML5 demo by my colleague @scottbw: http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/scott/blogview?entry=20090624222327

      Scott has HTML5 d’n'd combined with Microformats – proving the concept for dragging and dropping of semantically tagged data between completely different web-applications… Really ace!

      Sam Easterby-Smith

      29 Jun 09 at 17:05

    3. I came across this notable JS site;
      A naive bayes classifier;
      http://www.dusbabek.org/~garyd/bayes/

      And with one eye on HTML5 storage I am musing how much of the #IKS-project OSS Knowledge Stack could actually be moved onto the client.

      http://www.iks-project.eu

      Smart toolsets you initially add to your CMS to automatically tag content in fact develop into auto-complete/drag-drip (!) tools that know ‘the subject area you are writing about today’ then behind the scenes (or with your permission) goes and loads up the required taxonomy/ontology and help you write and tag correctly.

      Nice fit going on with sparql and json there.

      Richard (PHPguru) has some interesting things going on with HTML5 http://www.phpguru.org/

      Just thought I’d throw it in because he seems a nice man who does cool stuff – and he’s got a nice explanation of the client-side storage thing.

      Paul Geraghty

      30 Jun 09 at 15:13