Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Google declares 'The Web has won' - InternetNews.com

May 27, 2009

SAN FRANCISCO -- Google kicked off its I/O developer conference here with a spirited endorsement of new Web tools and adoption of new standards, particularly HTML 5, as driving a new generation of more innovative applications. "The Web has won -- it's the dominant programming model of our time," said Vic Gondotra, Google's vice president for engineering.

Gondotra and other Google personnel showed off new tools including Web Elements, designed to simplify the process of adding new features to Web sites. In a demo, a Google product manager showed how to add features like search and geolocation to a Web site by copying and pasting a block of Web Elements code...