I’m on the lookout for perspectives regarding the future outlook of the Web. I’m hopeful that this series will provide insight regarding the opportunities for those that practice, those that aspire and those that teach within the Web profession. To that end, I am on the phone with John Allsop, a 12 year veteran Web Developer and Conference Promoter of the Web Directions series of conferences.
I caught up with John via Skype in his home country of Australia and for today’s podcast John shares his wealth of knowledge his interesting perspective on the future outlook for the Web and the opportunity for the Web profession.
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Bill Cullifer, Web Professional Minute: For today’s podcast, I am on the look out for perspectives regarding the future outlook of the Web. I am hopeful that this series will provide insights regarding the opportunities for those that practice, those that practice and those that teach within the web profession. To that end, and I am on the phone with John Allsop, Web developer and conference promoter, of the Web Directions series of conferences. I caught up with John via Skype in his home country of Australia and here is what he had to say.
John Allsop: I am very, very excited around the technologies that are emerging for the Web that are becoming a reality. I think that we are seeing a burst of innovation in all of the browsers. I mean even architects of IE8. Clearly, Microsoft is recognizing that it’s important to start teaming up. I hope at some point start innovating again. I mean there are often innovations in IE8 and they to be much more focusing or playing well with others. Perhaps the way the difference innovations we’re working a decade or so where they would to take the browser war approach to innovation, trying to get people to use your browser because your technological was cool. very much [Inaudible] out of the standards book very much cloying [Inaudible] without the [Inaudible] some of the stuff they do around [Inaudible] and [Inaudible].
So, I guess [Inaudible] to the [Inaudible] around what the future lies for the web industry is and [Inaudible] practicing web profession, technically I think we are living in very interesting times and I think what we are seeing is the way there is a platform becoming an incredibly mature and rich platform, the advantage of being able to [Inaudible] out of your iPhone or the one on your [Inaudible] you kind of [Inaudible] new Panasonic televisions which have web browsers [Inaudible] laptop [Inaudible].
We are seeing you know a [Inaudible] of sophistication in the browsers [Inaudible] make the audio [Inaudible] application, applications that conform [Inaudible] to be able to set expectations around what an application should be like. The [Inaudible] they get from a distant application. I think we are seeing the emergence and implementation of technology [Inaudible] the world in that respect will become a [Inaudible] citizen as a platform over the next 12 to 18 months.
So, that’s really exciting and the people who have developed their web skills [Inaudible] being able to deploy [Inaudible] the traditional [Inaudible] of a web site [Inaudible] takes the [Inaudible] that’s precisely something that [Inaudible] rotation aspect or [Inaudible] which [Inaudible] but the standard by [Inaudible] the [Inaudible] that mean if you have got a web application, a web site, you can ask the browser [Inaudible] and provide… giving permission to the browser to tell you that.
You can [Inaudible] and provide [Inaudible] based on that location. [Inaudible] let’s think about the way… and what happens with the web from a economic point of view, from a business point of view, [Inaudible] become more [Inaudible] where do you use the [Inaudible] what [Inaudible] most of us use our web, you know or [Inaudible] it’s physically [Inaudible] to a [Inaudible] range of locations and it’s also [Inaudible] instance of its use case. Most people use the [Inaudible] kind of research based, work based like activity.
It’s always [Inaudible] what’s called recreational like of experiment with [Inaudible] where I will start expecting the percentage of people using the web would [Inaudible] when jumping into the double digits, jumping into maybe even a significant minority of the use of the [Inaudible] will be around you know location and [Inaudible] traditionally have [Inaudible] things are going to be seen [Inaudible] the opportunity for the web to benefit people’s lives will increase extraordinarily and as a consequence the business opportunity will increase extraordinarily because at the moment, [Inaudible] of why [Inaudible] which we can [Inaudible] as you know [Inaudible] every month and we [Inaudible] having physical access to web pretty much anywhere anytime even in aeroplanes or [Inaudible] to the US that has [Inaudible] activity and about [Inaudible] 300+ of [Inaudible] Wi-Fi [Inaudible] very few places where you won’t have web access and today this [Inaudible] and it is a [Inaudible] range of [Inaudible] theoretical point I think the opportunity to [Inaudible] like [Inaudible] you know come [Inaudible] I think the opportunity is unbelievable.