05/07: Opera Unite - New Ideas
Opera recently released a small revolution: Opera Unite. In short it's a web server integrated into your web browser.
Thinking about it I realized this could be far cooler than everyone else though. Of course people soon realized that Unite is technically cool. But everybody (including Opera itself) only published and showed services that already existed and simply worked as every other web server, too.
Opera has started an affiliate program...
I still hope for an Opera 10 Beta release this week... :)
I just read a blog post by Dave Winer. He is far too FF centric like so many people, but he has a point.
When you look at our ever more evolving web applications you can clearly see that this simply was never thought to be the task of HTML. Most of all apps are somewhat datacentric, and while with css you can quite nicely separate this content from its design it's still kind of botch. And at least when you look at apps like Google Spreadsheet you can see, that Javascript can do much, but it is too much constricted by the DOM and the whole way you have to do dynamic things.
