Julien Lecomte

Julien Lecomte's Blog Is Web 3.0 yet another buzz word, or is it a real turnaround in our industry? Web 1.0 was the good old web of the 1990s. In those times, all client-side changes were the result of a server round-trip. The Internet was ramping up in popularity. Web 2.0 has been a little more than just a technological evolution. The staple of Web 2.0 has been the emergence of social media (Internet users creating most of the content), powered by mature technologies (DHTML, Ajax) on somewhat stable web browsers. Web 3.0 is not a revolution either. It is yet another technological evolution destined to provide users with an even better experience, both online and offline. Web 3.0 will lead to the blurring of that artificial wall between the web browser and the desktop, providing a full — but secure — integration with devices and services exposed by the operating syst... (more)

Making Mashups Safe: Introducing CrossFrame

Julien Lecomte, who currently works on Yahoo!'s DHTML Evangelist team, is a member of the distinguished Speaker Faculty at the upcoming AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 East, to be held in New York City (March 18-20, 2008), where his session will be entitled "High Performance AJAX Applications." According to my Yahoo! co-worker Douglas Crockford, Mashups are the most interesting advancement in software development in decades. They are also unsafe in the current generation of browsers. Lately, Douglas has been spending some time convincing the main browser vendors that mashups need ... (more)