Needed to turn the web into a solid application platform with good support for composition and code reuse? I'm going to say yes (or if not Web Components then something that facilitates better scoping of code and CSS).
Of course, not everyone wants to see the web-application model become too powerful...
>Of course, not everyone wants to see the web-application model become too powerful...
Is that directed at Apple? Because they have had the most powerful mobile web engine for years -- and they continue evolve their desktop one. Heck, the gave us stuff like Canvas and CSS animations.
They needed to have an alternative to flash to make not implementing it viable...
If they hadn't added canvas/video etc to HTML and there was no way to do half the things flash did, it would have been trumped by Android and their mobile flash player.
>Of course, not everyone wants to see the web-application model become too powerful...
That's funny, since when the iPhone first came out, Apple claimed there wasn't gonna be a native SDK, and developers would just write all their apps in HTML.
Needed to turn the web into a solid application platform with good support for composition and code reuse? I'm going to say yes (or if not Web Components then something that facilitates better scoping of code and CSS).
Of course, not everyone wants to see the web-application model become too powerful...