Next Chapter Opens in Browser Wars

Google LANZO A video showing funny UN team standing by New York, asking pedestrians is a web browser. The vast majority of respondents seemed confused with his motor search. A good portion of people thought it was UN OS. Only 8% knew the correct answer. That number may have changed a bit since then, but probably not much. The browser is the equivalent digital electricity: We use it every day, but few people even matter saber how it works.

The Norwegian Opera wants to double its user base of Android in the two years nearby, said last week. This statement made me think of the Alcazar again.

I am a big fan UN Opera, but mostly because I like helpless. As for Browsers van filter, had a mix things up often. But with the market share of just 1.5%, some might wonder why I bother with Opera.
I can tell you why: Because one day - and that day is soon - our Navigators Will our operating systems.

Several trends lead me THIS conclusion.In background, the plug-in is dying. Nobody wants to run Java more, and even the once ubiquitous flash is Losing Ground. As for the list of plug-in my browser only reveals some other names in the package: one for VLC to play a wider variety of movie files that never plays through my browser, and another for PDF support.The latter leads me to point two ...

Browsers are adopting many native capabilities. My favorite is WebRTC, which introduced built-in voice communications and video di Browsers. He is still very young, so the son APPLICATIONS few, but the idea is that at some moment you will not need desktop applications like Skype owners to have a video chat online; applying one feeds through the browser. The PDF plug-in reflects a simile trend: with the exception of Insurance PDF files, I open all my PDFs in my browser.

Third, Browsers are carrying a great number of applications these days. Raise your hand if you use Gmail or Google Docs. Ditto. I also use Office 365 for work e-mail and such - and I do not run a desktop application.

Everything is in the browser. Come by the Archives to see Internet games DOSBox one flowing through your browser or visit any of the numerous games emulators doing the same. Not a single piece of software lives in my machine to allow Amazon Cloud Drive, Dropbox, and YouTube and so on. Last time you installed a of Office Suite and has started a use for basic image editing.

Fourth on my list of reasons is HTML5. In fact, we can pull this language company and in all the above programming, since these are the ones cannibalize the world of desktop software.

HTML5 seems incredibly powerful and versatile, and growing with each iteration. Already, many vendors offering applications on any device are pinning their ambitions an HTML5, allowing rich applications that are created within UN browser.

Now you could argue: What's The Apps? But many of the applications that are already in developing HTML5 and complementary languages. The Telephone INTELLIGENT highly dependent son be logged - This is how Siri and other artificial intelligence based personal assistants work. Combining HTML with some back-end processes on a remote server that can match anything theoretically He could do a native application on your device. In fact, so developers do is create a petite One application using HTML5 central a then use "wrappers" that is to pop on different devices. And HTML5 offline support is fast approaching.

Of course, my views are making some assumptions. But there is an obvious impulse to the browser occupying more and more of our workload of the application. Now, considering that the user experience finale is entirely outside Apps, how long before someone decide make only the browser the center of all this? If that were one to happen, you can run any application on any device (hardware permitting) as long as you have an updated browser.

This trend is probably in the core strategy Opera. No need to even double digit market share to be relevant in the market for browsers, without air miles of millions of users with a choice. Opera users wants 275m 2017 - which is more of a Third of the European population.

However, we are only seeing the beginning of a new era in warfare Alcazar. The browser Microsoft Project Spartan in di Windows 10 can reignite a new chapter in the War of Alcazar. If Microsoft does not do it, someone Hara - and soon.