High-end conversation: the future browser of Opera's chief Standards Officer

According to foreign media reports, Opera's chief Standard Officer Charles McCathieNevile was interviewed by O's Reilly website editor Mac Slocum. The interview covers the future of Web browsers and hardware devices such as tablets and mobile phones.

The following is the content of the interview:

Five years ago, Web browsers were just a small application and were less important than operating systems and commercial software. But now the situation is different, and the browser's position is greatly improved.

MS: will the browser become the main tool of the computer?

Charles McCathieNevile: not in the future, but now the browser has become the main tool for computers. Email, file management, and device control are all based on browsers. The game is also developed based on browsers. More applications will run in the browser.

MS: will the browser disappear or be integrated into the operating system in the next five years?

CM: it will not disappear, but as the browser becomes more important, the browser will be viewed as a computer interface. In the future, people may choose Computers Based on browsers rather than operating systems and software.

MS: in the past two to three years, what are the important improvements of browsers?

CM: the browser technology has been improved in many aspects: the huge increase in Javascript speed and capacity, and the enhanced compatibility between XHTML, CSS, and SVG. However, in the long run, WAI-ARIA technology plays an important role in the development of the Internet.

MS: Will browsers be innovative in the mobile field in the next few years?

CM: Of course. Mobile browsing is innovative. In addition to the mobile field, medium-sized large screen devices with different interface methods have also contributed to browser innovation as a new network platform.

MS: What impact does a tablet have on browsers?

CM: tablets enable people to recognize the importance of multi-platform application development. This concept makes it easier to develop applications on different platforms and meets people's needs for device diversity.

MS: CAN network applications catch up with mobile applications?

CM: the future development trend is the integration of network applications and mobile application technologies. The JIL and BONDI technologies developed for computers can also form the basis for application interface groups of W3C devices. In addition, network workers, database storage, HTML5 videos, and other technologies are also being referenced on mobile devices.