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March 31, 2006

AJAX, thy name is new Web Technology: B3!

Updated: Hint - I posted this one day early for effect. Read some of the comments in that light - verrrry funny :)

The future is here.

We're not quite ready to release it widely yet, but I've VERY excited about a breakthrough in our use and understanding of browser embedded applications. Its not AJAX, but it is
AJAX-y.

While many companies and start-ups are struggling with basic online applications like weak Word Processors and pokey productivity tools and lame web page editors that Desktop applications already dealt with much better in the last century - WE are going to leap frog them with the ultimate Mash-up-able Web 2.0 AJAX-y JSON-based content runtime.

This new technology will finally and forever end the debates about
Firefox vs Internet Explorer vs Opera vs Safari, in the same way the original browser conclusively eliminated the debate about which Operating System was better - it just didn't matter anymore.

As my grandmother's Podiatrist used to always say:
You can't nail the problems of the future with hammers from the past.

I'm pleased to announce the alpha release of the first portable
Browser Based Browser: B-Three!

- B3! runs RIGHT in your browser - no install required.
- B3! is 100% compatible with your existing browser, and never requires any updating - features stream in just as you need them/use them.
- B3! has NO requirements and requires nothing to be installed (except a Browser)
- Its only an alpha, so be gentle - MANY more exciting features will be coming soon (automagically).

The future is now (er... plus the three minutes it took you to read this post).

Go
check it out.

Once you B3!, you won't remember before.
(beFOUR- get it?)

19 comments:

Anonymous said...

My browser sucks. So I guess B3 will suck, too.

Anonymous said...

"in the same way the original browser conclusively eliminated the debate about which Operating System was better - it just didn't matter anymore."

That's a lie and you know it.

Anonymous said...

To me, this seems to be a bad idea. How are you going to deal with HTTPS connections? How will we know they're not heading to AOL unencrypted before being forwarded? This seems like a pretty risky proposal.

Anonymous said...

Perhaps some will think that I'm going out on a limb here, but if we think past the "browser proper" and contemplate "embedded browser" type of applications, I think this has huge potential.

Who wants to modify C++ code all the time to introduce a user-interface tweak for a browser-based application?

Even Tim O'Reilly mentioned that the future of Web 2.0 includes "browser-based" but not necessarily "browser-bound" applications (e.g., iTunes).

I say good job Sree and others and keep moving towards beta :).

Sree Kotay said...

"How are you going to deal with HTTPS connections? How will we know they're not heading to AOL unencrypted before being forwarded?"

Hey, that's a good idea! I'll put it on the list for the next B3 upgrade push.

Sree Kotay said...

"That's a lie and you know it."

Oh yeah, well, I'm rubber and you're glue; Bounces off me, and sticks to - oh, you know the rest.

Anonymous said...

How do I make this my default browser?

Anonymous said...

i don't get it. a browser within a browser seems pointless. wats the difference between aol.com and this. I think i am tech illiterate - wat is itttt?

Anonymous said...

Okay...I played along, but Steve could have--at least--changed it a little from last year :).

Sree Kotay said...

ah, but LAST year, it was private... :)

Anonymous said...

Finally a browser in a browser that works. Now we gotta get the VMP to run in it :-)

~dd

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