Flash doesn’t seem so bad when you look at the HTML5 video implementation now does it… every decent device will have flash in 2011. some things should just be done the easy way.

My wish for 2010… that people stop whinging about blurring when not that long ago we didn’t have table tags. Geez use flash already!

(HTML and SWF have worked together for over a decade, and there is no sign of this changing. But every few years we get an acrimonious buzzword (“DHTML”, “Ajax”, “HTML5”) that divides people. Just do good work, however you choose to do it.)

jd/adobe

How about “Our Top Ten Browser Improvements Wishes for 2011” ?

On security and device access: you’re already trusting that no-one can hack the browser when you load a web page, I mean browser code is just code. You have to believe that there is something inherently insecure in the permission code. The way that this is proposed to be implemented, you have to grant permission, then press a native “take photo” button in order to give a web page a photograph. It’s not much different than a web page “upload” button.

On the need for WebSQL…I was once the product manager for Netscape Directory Server, which became the iPlanet directory server, then the Sun One Directory Server, and now I suppose it’s some species of Oracle directory server. At the time (the late 90’s) we thought that directories - a classic b-tree, heavily indexed database - were going to take over the world. We were wrong. It turns out that with any sufficiently interesting data store, people want to relate a single piece of information to multiple other pieces of information. We hacked this using aliases in directories, but then, once sufficiently large numbers of aliases were created, they were extremely difficult to make fast, consistent and indexable, and they weren’t easily maintained. I’m not talking for toy-data sets of a few hundred records, but for tens of thousands of records. The relational data model is efficient and transaction friendly, and it happens to match the model that most of the world’s structured data is held-in. We should have a relational database capability in the browser.

It’s a HTML5 wishlist because that’s the best term that people sort of agree on for this next basket of browser tech, although as we’ve written before, it’s not entirely accurate since the core HTML5 spec is actually now a relatively small set of technologies after the W3C has finished spinning out many many interested techs into separate spec documents.

Android browser improvements? Too many to list but start with preventing OEM’s from kludging up the interactions between native and browser events (HTC Sense UI is the major criminal here), increasing the event dispatch rate so we can get finer touch control, turning on SVG, fixing virtual keyboard interactions with form entry…

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” — Antoine de Saint-Exuper

Please keep your retorts to yourself.

I suggest this post is re-constructed into a more focused one that reflects the headline. On top of that, some of the numbered items in the list are not well thought out. For instance #6 just poses too many security concerns. #1 Is just bad web application programming and also a security risk. Now I’ve contributed. Please don’t cry about it.

@Awesome Bob please leave your trolly crap somewhere else :(

For HTML5 I only want is to get it adopted faster and WebKit and Mozilla not to fight over standards as much. Maybe Mozilla needs some pushing, because it’s seriously lacking behind WebKit.

I’d wish for something that should have been in browsers ten years ago. A client-side JavaScript event that reports on the progress of an upload through the browser, so we don’t have to use ridiculous flash hacks to add a progress bar! Haven’t seen such a thing in HTML5 yet, anyone seen a spec for it?

Hmm no, I was happy WebSQL died in 2010 and I can only hope its grave to be completely forgotten in 2011.

We do not need SQL inside the browser in 2011, it’s not the way the world is going forward…
If there is really a need for accessing data through a SQL syntax (let’s be real here, mostly for adapting legacy applications), it is completely possible to implement an efficient SQL layer in JavaScript on top of an IndexedDB implementation.

Are you joking? This is totally incorrect. Pls, listen more carefully to his speach. Or better read MS’s furhter explanations on the subject.

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5. Better debugging tools for mobile browsers

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