Universal Canvas – In the Beginning…
I've turned out to be exceptionally inspired by the "All inclusive Canvas", a term promoted by Microsoft and along these lines dissected by Jon Udell. Above all else, here are two meanings of the Universal Canvas:
a) From a Microsoft White Paper dated June 2000, entitled Microsoft .NET: Realizing the Next Generation Internet:
"The all inclusive canvas expands upon XML construction to change the Internet from a read-just condition into a read/compose stage, empowering clients to intelligently make, peruse, alter, comment on and examine data."
b) Jon Udell's definition, from his June 2001 article entitled The widespread canvas:
"… a surface on which we see, yet in addition make and alter, words and tables and outlines and pictures."
Udell additionally composed a subsequent article in August 2001. As of late he's composed further regarding the matter – portraying a few apparatuses and techniques to deliver organized, semantic web composing. Specifically observe his OSCOM keynote.
Be that as it may, gives up back to the start, or if nothing else the start of when the term 'Widespread Canvas' begun to be bandied about by Microsoft as a major aspect of its .NET push. The 2000 white paper I alluded to above depicted how "Microsoft .NET will take processing and interchanges a long ways past the single direction Web to a rich, cooperative, intelligent condition". The internet browser was viewed as a key segment to this vision. In 2000 the internet browser was just a "celebrated read-just moronic terminal", yet Microsoft's objective was to give a "bound together perusing, altering and writing condition".
Anyway quick forward to 2003 and the internet browser is less prevalant in the .NET vision. So what's the point of convergence for the Universal Canvas now? Well a sign or two was given in a 2002 InfoWorld meet with Microsoft executive Jeff Raikes. He clarified the all inclusive canvas implies the capacity to have "information structures… meet around XML". He said that it "… truly rotates around getting to that information structure layer." And with regards to information, Microsoft has an entire scope of Office items that gather and record it. Furthermore Microsoft's Office items – for instance Word and Excel – are all now XML-ized. They would all be able to change over their information into the XML position (albeit a few transformations are uglier than others). Add to this current Microsoft's new Office item, InfoPath, which is touted as a XML-based structures device for composing and altering. What's more, you can see that, as opposed to the all inclusive canvas being worked around the internet browser, it is presently an Office idea… in any event for Microsoft.
The all inclusive canvas is at the core of what the two-way web is, and what it will turn into. Consequently I will keep on investigating the idea over the coming weeks…
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