Some Devoxx Keynote notes...

Sun's take over by Oracle : the sun set... Mark Reinhold.
Focus for Java 7, 8, 9 :

• Productivity,
• Performance,
• Universality,
• Modularity (the classpath problem),
• Integration
• Serviceability

The State of the Web

• Microsoft Statements about HTML5
• Microsoft's Monopoly = a dynamic ecosystem that they have
• A move from Silverlight to HTML 5 ?
• Back in time 95, Google looked the same as today... while others...
• Windows Presentation Foundation Vs OSX Cocoa Vs Adobe FX Vs Ruby Vs Java Vs Ajax
• A new ecosystem : Apps
• Kindle Singles (note for me: Edit Business eBooks as a Kindle Single)
  
• $3.000.000.000 Mobile Apps economy
• Getting rich with apps ?? Do the maths :-)))
• Apps are content, it is a "hits" business
  
• Flury Blog, measured 20% of the Apple Apps are equal or higher than TV audiences
• Developers are connecting with mainstream
  
• Pricing -- omnifocus for iPad $39 Vs ToDO Lists for iPad $0,99 optional donation
• Apple Care DVD with one readme file to make the service tangible
  
• Impact of the App ecosystem on the web. Web companies are delivering apps... providing something better than what they have on the web
  
• Developper Mindshare (ex: Mozilla dev. who moved to iPhone)
  
• Delta Airlines - Native App Vs WebApp. Native Apps receive the higher investments.
  
• Twitter on iPad, as great app. (I Agree). Influence of the ipad design on the web design. HTML5 technology in there.
  
• FlipBoard - Only on mobile devices. Don't bother going mobile.
• Microsoft now embraces HTML5 because if Apps run on the Desktop, Microsoft is out of the game...
• Conflict in the next years between Apps and HTML5 ecosystems
  
  
• App Ecosystem success rely on Platform Distribution, Merchandising Experience, Platform Capabilities
  
  
• J2ME : missed Disribution
  
  
• Web : Distribution : a lot of Internet Browsers (IE6=90%), HTML5 browsers (10%), solution : Google Chrome Frame plug-in ? (can be run as a User and not as an Admin)
  
• HTML 5 still fragmented : ex : HTML5 Video and Codex compatibility
• What is HTML5 ? HTML5 an Friends...
  
  
• Web: Merchandising ? Put ads, which pollute the UI, Subscriptions, Freemium models (parley)
  
• With Apps, Merchandising is trivial. The web needs marketspaces - Mozilla Open Web App Store, Google "WebStore"
  
  
• Web : Platform Capabilities, Luckilly, today 3 of the world's fastest browsers released get out at the same time :)
• FireFox Tab Candy (todo:Check it)
  
• WebGL 3D
  
• --> The web needs deeper APIs and richer app frameworks
• Javascript ? 
• The web also missed a Permission model
  
  
• Mainly missing for the web : Mechandising
  
  
• The Web and mobile can work with each other and complement each other's gaps

• Transforming apps to HTML5 --> CSS can say that the HTML would like to be "Native", CSS Transforms, Turning on CSS classes for animations, setting background as gradients, lovely rounded corners stuffs...
• AppCelerator Titanium, architect an app with MVC

The State of the Web makes my day #devoxx http://bit.ly/cfVHuY