It dawned on me as I installed the new version of FF that we are experiencing something completely different and new.
I took a quick peak and what FF had to offer and I was quickly directed to something I knew little about, WebGL, and then I saw what it had to offer. After doing some further research it appeared that HTML5 CSS3 were meant to be together. Is this the dawn of web 3.0.
I am a designer and a coder, but more of a designer, code can bore me without creative flare. I did animation as university, maybe that says it all. This is all very exciting stuff, I will actually be able to be more creative on websites.
I would love to hear people’s thoughts on WebGL and how things are going to evolve on the web.
They haven’t really gone all the way with Web 2.0 but Web 3.0 will probably be the advent of the semantic web. Apart from that I think it’s too early to proclaim that Web 2.0 is over with even if HTML5 and CSS3 are being developed.
WebGL is currently a security nightmare and should be avoided at this time. If you are using a browser that has WebGL support, find a way to turn it off. It currently is way to insecure to have it one. At this point in time.
Also there is no such thing called “Web 2.0” or “Web 3.0” you are just victims of your marketing departments.
The term “Web 3.0” was used years ago to mean a different way of defining the back end database to make it more flexible for adding new fields (at the cost of losing most of the real benefits a database has in the first place).
So any new development would need to be called “Web 4.0”.
really? huh… learn a new thing every day. So your saying systems such as Drupal 7 and WordPress that support “meta data” are essentially “web 3.0”? Of course the whole “meta data” thing in relational databases is one sacrifice after another to begin with.
That’s putting it politely, it’s the same type of bull you’d expect from the people who think there’s sound technical advice in the pages of Forbes.
Which is basically the same as taking financial advice from Popular Electronics.
Market-speak buzzwords sleaze-ball scam artists can use to prey on the ignorance of clients like second rate vultures.
After all, that’s what Web 2.0 ended up being turned into. Same thing as slapping new acronyms on existing technologies just to make them sound more important than they were when we had them a decade ago.
The good thing though is morons understand these terms better then talking about things like geolocation, font embedding, offline storage. When they here the new buzz word it gives them a reason to update. However, if you threw the actual technology list at them people just roll their eyes. In that respect I understand “html5” for what its worth. “Web 2.0” is a bit different but still yeah. Wrapping new technologies in a cool buzzword makes adaption to new technologies better to understand for people who know nothing about the web.
Maybe it’s better if people don’t understand the terms. Then, perhaps, they’d ask for a “good quality website” rather than trotting out a list of buzzwords they don’t understand anyway.[/ot]
I would love to hear people’s thoughts on WebGL and how things are going to evolve on the web.
I don’t have a single machine capable of rendering WebGL. None of the machines in our office are capable. I don’t see hardware upgrades coming any time soon for us. And as for the security concerns Logic_earth mentioned, turning the stuff off in Chrome is retardedly difficult. At least with Firefox if you crawl around in teh about:config for a while you should be able to have it off as a setting.
I see NoScript has
“Apply these restrictions to whitelisted sites too:”
[checkbox] WebGL
Yay, this is much easier, though managing security via a browser plugin has its own holes.