Future of web

Lately I’ve seen various specs show up that seem to look promising and could potentially be the future of the web (some of these items have been evolving for a while but aren’t necessarily mainstream yet):

Rich Web Client

source: http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/Activity.html

• XMLHttpRequest (Level) 2
• Server-Sent Events (SSE)
• Web Sockets
• Web Database
• Web Storage
• Web Workers

Web Applications

source: http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/

• Shadow DOM
• Push API
• Web Sockets
• File API
• Uniform Messaging Policy
  • related to multiple origin requests, cross-domain issues, etc.

I could seriously spend days reading through stuff on the w3c site, there’s TONS of information there.