title: The Open Web - What's at Stake
Brendan Eich, Mozilla @ SXSW 2007
(Adapted S9 Version from Original S5 Slide Deck)
- Unencumbered, Cross-Platform Standards
- Open Source / Free Software Implementations
- No Single-Vendor "Lock-In"
- User Innovation Network Effects
- Distributed Extensibility
- Cubic Equation Wars (16th Century Italy)
- Apple iTunes
- Adobe Flash, Adobe Integrated Runtime/AIR (formerly Apollo)
- Microsoft Silverlight (formerly WPF/E - Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere)
- The "New English Dictionary" (1857-1884)
- Extreme Sports Gear (Windsurfing, 1978-1998)
- Ajax Libraries (Prototype, Dojo, jQuery, etc.)
- Most of the Public Web, Still (2007)
- The WHAT Working Group
- Eric von Hippel, MIT
- User-only innovation networks can flourish when:
- "Lead Users" have incentive to innovate
- Users voluntarily reveal their innovations
- Diffusion of innovations is low cost
- Will the W3C HTML WG use WHATWG specs?
- Will Microsoft handicap the Web vs. Silverlight?
- Will Adobe open up Flash?
- What's Apple up to?
- Can Mozilla make a difference (again)?
- We want to move the Web forward quickly
- Offline Web Apps (Firefox 3)
- 2D and 3D (OpenGL/ES) Canvas tag
- JavaScript 2 / ECMAScript Edition 4
- Better text via CSS3 and beyond
- Working with Opera via WHATWG on
<video>- Unencumbered Ogg Theora decoder in all browsers
- Ogg Vorbis for
<audio> - Other formats possible
- DHTML player controls
- For all browsers, not just Firefox
Follow-up Article: The Open Web and Its Adversaries (March 2007)