A high level overview of the focus and goals of the BrowserPlus platform.

1. BrowserPlus™
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Lloyd Hilaiel - Yahoo!
Nov 18th, 2008
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2. haiku
people grok browser.
browser could be so much more:
plugins aren’t working!
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3. focus
• NO “fixing” web UI
• NO web outside the web
• NO improving javascript
• YES new web features with low overhead
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4. browser plugins!
• scriptable
• compatible
• portable
• powerful
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5. plugin problems...
• installing plugins sucks
• writing web plugins is hard
• sharing plugins doesn’t happen
• updating plugins is clumsy
• securing plugins is hard
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6. What is BrowserPlus?
?
BrowserPlus enables in-browser desktop applications.
BrowserPlus makes it easy to expose new
functions to JavaScript which allow RIAs
secure access to desktop facilities.
BrowserPlus is an abstraction layer over
web plugins. It implements all of the stuff
common to all web plugins, thereby decreasing
the cost of development, and affording end
users easier management and installation.
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7. how it works
• user visits page
• [user installs platform]
• page requests services
• [user approves]
• new javascript functions available to page
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8. viscerally
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9. key points
• services installed on demand
• services can be shared
• seemless installation
• no browser restarts.
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10. services are...
• seemless to install
• easy to write
• natural to share
• automatically updated
• simpler to secure
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11. ecosystem
End Users Web Devs
:-D
50 pix 36 pix
Service Authors
16 pix
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12. BrowserPlus™
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13. Open Source
• BrowserPlus will be Open Source
• Service API and most services by end of year
• Everything else - mid next year
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14. Yahoo! roles
• Consumer of the platform:
• distribution
• stability
• features
• Project maintainer
• Bug fixes and feature requests
• Service adoption
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15. contact us
• Questions, Support, Ideas:
http://developer.yahoo.net/forum/
• Partners:
browserplus-feedback@yahoo-inc.com
• Follow - twitter #browserplus &
YDN forums RSS
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16. questions?
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