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A Better User Experience for the Web Sebastian Kgler (Open-SLX GmbH) 03.07.2010 | Tampere, Finland | Akademy 2010 Agenda Why the Web rocks Why the Web sucks How can we make suck less and rock more Sebastian Kgler www.kde.org 2

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03.07.2010 | Tampere, Finland | Akademy 2010

A Better User Experience for the Web

Sebastian Kügler (Open-SLX GmbH)

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Sebastian Kügler www.kde.org 2

Agenda

Why the Web rocks
Why the Web sucks
How can we make suck less and rock more

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Sebastian Kügler www.kde.org 3

The Web Rocks

Our friends are there
Our photos and videos are there
Our Email and IM is there
Many new interesting things happen there

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Sebastian Kügler www.kde.org 4

The Web Sucks

It's only available when you're online
Its content and presentation is mixed
It's Inconsistent
It's made for yesterday's computers

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Sebastian Kügler www.kde.org 5

What to do?

Separate content and data
Cache data
Use native UIs for the presentation
Unlock the Web to Hackers

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Sebastian Kügler www.kde.org 6

Silk Concepts

Generic interface + scripted plugins
Sharing plugins using web services
Modifying, remixing and mashing up content
Using native Uis
Cache

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Sebastian Kügler www.kde.org 7

Silk Reality

Access mechanisms to Wikipedia (MediaWiki), Openstreetmap,

Web comics, Twitter/Identi.ca, Public Transport, RSS, Weather, PIM (Akonadi)

Image sharing services, Remember the Milk, Youtube, Google

Search

Appstore for sharing services: Get Hot New Stuff
Geolocation using IP, GPS, Wifi through pluggable backends

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Sebastian Kügler www.kde.org 8

Why don't we ...

… index visited webpages in Nepomuk?
… why don't we access RSS feeds through Akonadi and make them available offline?
… watch Youtube videos in Dragon Player?
… browse and tag photos from FlickR in Gwenview?
… make the weather applet use geolocation?
… make maps from Openstreetmap for Tampere available offline in Marble?
… edit Google Docs in KWord?
… store and share our application settings online?
… cache and index Twitter messages?

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Sebastian Kügler www.kde.org 9

Let's hack!

IRC: #kde-silk on Freenode
Mailinglist: kde-silk@kde.org
Docs & Ideas: techbase.kde.org/Projects/Silk
Playground: http://gitorious.org/project-silk

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03.07.2010 | Tampere, Finland | Akademy 2010

Thanks for your attention!

Sebastian Kügler (Open-SLX GmbH)