Star Mozilla CEO Speaks Out on Future of Firefox
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 7th May 2007 20:52 UTC, submitted by diegocg
Mozilla & Gecko clones "According to Mozilla's CEO Mitchell Baker, Firefox is just at the beginning of its life cycle. In this one-on-one interview with APCMag.com, she talks about where Firefox came from and where it's going."
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web 3.0
by SEJeff on Mon 7th May 2007 22:22 UTC
SEJeff
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2005-11-05

One of the bigger features of FF3 will be an offline ajax support. Once popular apps like gmail start taking advantage of features like this, we have a fully web enabled platform. The last part of her interview pretty much sums it up:

http://apcmag.com/6053/mozilla_working_on_web_3_0_web_apps_that_run...

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RE: web 3.0
by modmans2ndcoming on Tue 8th May 2007 00:46 in reply to "web 3.0"
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2005-11-09

so... web 3.0 in your opinion will be web browser apps that run on your system and simply access the web for data retrieval and authentication?

isn't that what they already do?

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RE[2]: web 3.0
by SEJeff on Tue 8th May 2007 01:18 in reply to "RE: web 3.0"
SEJeff Member since:
2005-11-05

Sort of, but when you don't have a network connection... And when you connect, they automagically connect and send your data.

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RE: web 3.0
by jessta on Tue 8th May 2007 12:44 in reply to "web 3.0"
jessta Member since:
2005-08-17

Web 3.0, everything that was old is new again.

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