So, my good friend Steve
spills
the beans about the upcoming SDK. The crowd
screams
like
girls
at the Beatles concert. Even ever-curmudgeonly Dave
eeks
a "hooray". And that's a big deal, my reading acquaintance. Now, I don't own an
iPhone, but I play with one at the local store every other week. And I also am a
gearhead,
as we've discussed before. And, I watch
google-gears
and
WHATWG
groups like a hawk whenever there's talk about gear-related stuff.
With all that, it is only logical to assume that I am siding
with
Chris on the mournful thoughts for the Web-based application development on
the delectable slice of glass-sided aluminum. Because in my opinion, Safari 3 is
only five tiny steps away from being a full-fledged application platform.
These steps are:
The "nice-to-haves" and "coming-soons" may include direct TCP Network
connections, history and browsing context management, and other neat things from
the HTML5 spec, but those first five is what could really make the Web
applications first-class. Think about it.