[LINK] Sir Tim Berners-Lee Advocates Web Apps at Linux Conference in Canberra

[Rick Welykochy]

Tom Worthington wrote:

> Greetings from Sir Tim Berners-Lee's keynote address on the last day of
> Linux Conference 2013: http://lca2013.linux.org.au/media/news/84

[SNIP]

> He pointed out that only one quarter of the world's
> population.

At a guess, Tom, the end of that sentence is "has access to the web" ??


> Two issues Sir Tim touched on was that of the competition for the web
> from mobile "Apps". When information and services are provided via an
> App they are no longer accessible via the web. The Apps are locked away
> in separate systems and can't interact with the web.

Mobile apps certainly interact with the web. You can tweet and facebook
from you phone, after all.

But Sir Tim couldn't be more right in his observations about mobile apps.
They are tedious to code in a variety of languages, and have to be recoded
to work across different phone platforms.

The way forward is to write a single app in HTML5 that can be run within
a web browser or on a mobile device as a stand-alone.

Why do I get the feeling that mobile phone companies will resist calls to
"unwall" and take on HTML 5?

[SNIP]


> While explaining he is not a lawyer, Sir Tim expressed the view that
> Aaron had done no more than download a large number of academic
> articles, while prosecutors characterized him as a criminal hacker and
> threat to society.

It seems Aaron's prosecutors were a threat to his life, as he
committed suicide this month (no note). A terrible and senseless
loss of life and a loss to the Internet community and the pursuit
of Internet freedoms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz


cheers
rickw


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