Hi Eric, I was trying to make an analogy between I...

2006-10-24T16:46:00.000+01:00

Hi Eric, I was trying to make an analogy between IMAP clients and Web browsers, but I'm afraid that mentioning IMAP just confused things! I wrote that any (web) browser should be able to update & manage 2) my bookmarks and 3) my saved web pages. I did not mention the protocol (and was not thinking of IMAP). The analogy I was trying to make is this:

IMAP client:messages :: web browser:web pages

The point I was trying to make is that we should be able to easily switch web browsers in the same way we can easily switch IMAP clients because the data and metadata are stored on servers. (So I absolutely agree with you that multiple web browsers for a single user is a key issue.)

If you want to discuss protocols, though, my guess is that it will be feed protocols that solve all these problems (multiple web browsers, multiple email clients, etc.). As Ray Ozzie said, and as I quoted here, "RSS has the potential to be the “UNIX pipe of the internet.”"

Thank you for your comment. I should probably edit this blog item to try to make it more clear, but for now I hope this comment helps a bit to clarify what I was trying to say.

Hi,Don't you think the features 2 & 3 you mention ...

2006-10-24T15:49:00.000+01:00

Hi,
Don't you think the features 2 & 3 you mention would better be supported by http/webdav instead of IMAP ? (think about webdav/ical sync for example)
Another point that will rise -in my opinion- wil be the usage of multiple web browsers: home, work (their bookmarks, history, sessions,... could be yet synchronized with extensions) and mobile: first solution could be a MIDP/Windows Mobile browser project that could sync with the other browsers, the other solution could be a new web-surfing protocol with bookmarks/history/sessions/
passwords/cookies/.... synchro.

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