Browser as
an application framework

No longer just an HTML renderer...

• Local storage (e.g. through sqlite)
• Business logic & Processing power though Javascript programming and AJAX (e.g. National Atlas viewer)

National Atlas Viewer

Browser as
an application framework

No longer just an HTML renderer...

• Local storage (e.g. through sqlite)
• Business logic & Processing power though Javascript programming and AJAX (e.g. National Atlas viewer)
• Separation of content and styling through CSS
• Connection of data and visualisation through the DOM (e.g. D3.js)
• More and better standardized in- and output possibilities through HTML5

HTML5

• Is the latest version of HTML (still under development, but supported in all major browsers)
• Is part of the “openWeb”: using only Open Standard formats (e.g. making Flash unnecessary)
• Allows for other XML elements to be used inside a document: e.g. MathML, Canvas & SVG
• Combined with in-line JavaScript, it allows creation of client-side web-applications

Browser as
a powerful graphics engine

Hitherto impossible graphics performance because of adoption of

WebGL

WebGL

• a JavaScript API for rendering interactive 2D & 3D graphics
• without the use of plug-ins
• allowing GPU acceleration