[IxDA Discuss] "What’s in Leopard for Designers (2): WebKit & Safari"

[Kontra]

The second article in a series exploring future design implications of
Leopard technologies:

What's in Leopard for Designers (2): WebKit & Safari
<http://counternotions.com/2007/10/22/leopard-for-designers-2/>
http://counternotions.com/2007/10/22/leopard-for-designers-2/

"Safari is Apple's trojan horse into the developer community dressed up as
an invitation to create web apps for the popular iPhone."

"What QuickTime is to iTunes, WebKit is to Safari. Wherever OS X goes so
goes WebKit: today on Macs, iPhones and iPods, perhaps tomorrow on AppleTV
or other platforms yet to come."

"But what if the web browser had a persistence layer, where data could be
locally stored not in miniscule bites of cookies, but in a proper relational
database? Welcome to HTML5 client-side database storage! The emerging API
allows the browser to store structured data using plain old SQL."

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Kontra
http://counternotions.com