Introducing Project Silk

[Rigo Wenning]

Hi Sebastian, 

please be sure to monitor 
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/wiki/Main_Page

reading your email, this struck me as nearly parallel. WebApps could 
hugely benefit from a KDE implementation and you could find an even 
more interoperable way of doing things. 

If you have further questions, please don't hesitate to ask. 

Best, 
Rigo Wenning
W3C Legal counsel

On Friday 18 September 2009, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
[...]
> 
> The client used to access the data through the service nowadays
>  is the web browser. The current situation is that the service
>  ships a complete application to the user. Web applications that
>  get their data live from the server and present it in a
>  JavaScript-controlled HTML page are the norm. One problem here
>  is that it's for the service increasingly hard to anticipate
>  what works for the client, a big detailed webpage might not fit
>  on a small, hi-res screen with touch-screen input, small fonts
>  and mouse-based navigation are both no-gos for a ten-foot
>  interface with a remote control. There is also very little
>  consistency in both, appearance and interaction for the user
>  across different web applications.
> 


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