Description
Read the following article for some initial insight from Tim Berners-Lee on the 25th anniversary of the browser:
(Links to an external site.)
For this week’s lecture consider what issues browsers contend with now and where the browser, and by extension the Internet, is going:
What are the trends in browsers?
What are the issues with today’s browsers?
Which application protocols need updating and why?
How are mobile/handheld browsers different from the traditional desktops?
On a personal level, what are your own experiences with browsers? How often do you use mobile browsers and what problems do you see with the current state of browsers? Where do you see them going?
