Karl Dubost interviewed at Velocity 2011
summary
Browsers show concrete gains: engine speed is tenfold speed improvement over a few years, desktop and mobile engines converge, and error recovery handles messy pages but still leaves 95% broken markup on the web. Mobile is far more diverse than North America assumes and Opera dominant in many mobile markets worldwide. Expect tight device integration via W3C device APIs, apps running in chromeless browser environments, and a rapid hardware cycle with device churn 18 months driving web-first development.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00Start
- 0:09The State of Browsers Today
- 10:51How Do You See Browsers Evolving over the Next Five Years
- 12:43The Gv Device Api Working Group








