RE: The ever encroaching blur between web apps and apps

["Steve Lord" <slord () diagonalsecurity com>]

Avalon is much more than just a new UI interface. It's part of MS' drive
to reduce the number of APIs currently in use in Windows. It's supposed
to compete with SVG and Flash from what I've seen/heard/read and looks
quite cute. Earlier this year a Microsoft Rep told me it was cross
platform and portable (to all Microsoft platforms of course, natch ;).

We already have the technology that Avalon proposes (in a slightly more
clunky way) through things like Swing and Flash, Avalon also doesn't
seem to affect the underlying communications between App and server, it
allows active components to store data offline (I remember being told
how ActiveX and COM would change our lives in a similar way) for
Service-Orientated applications. IMHO The real fun and games for us
starts with Indigo
(http://www.microsoft.com/indonesia/msdn/indigofaq1.asp) in which MS
tries to take on J2EE and Distributed architecture as a whole.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Curphey [mailto:mark () curphey com] 
Sent: 30 August 2004 13:54
To: webappsec () securityfocus com
Subject: The ever encroaching blur between web apps and apps


Anyone else any other good observations on the topic ?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnintlo
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