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Title : Trends in Web Applications and the Implications on Standardization
Author(s) : Hannes Tschofenig
Bernard Aboba
Jon Peterson
Danny McPherson
Filename : draft-tschofenig-post-standardization-01.txt
Pages : 22
Date : 2011-10-31
Advancements in the design of web browsers have introduced
fundamental changes to the architecture of application protocols.
The widespread availability and growing sophistication of JavaScript
interpreters in browsers enables web servers to push to browsers all
of the application logic required to implement a client-server
protocol. Consequently, many client-server applications that once
required an installed client on a host computer now can rely simply
on a modern browser to act as a client for the purposes of a
particular application. For example, where once email clients
required a custom application to access an inbox, increasingly a web
browser can serve this purpose as well as the purpose-built
applications of the past. Similarly, HTTP with the assistance of
JavaScript can subsume the functions performed by the protocols like
POP3 and IMAP. The need for Internet standards beyond HTTP to
implement an email inbox application consequently diminishes - why
author standards and worry about interoperability of clients and
servers when the server can simply push to the client all the code it
needs to be interoperable?
Many client-server applications on the Internet could potential
migrate to this code distribution methodology.
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