Video: The co-founders of Ajaxian.com discuss new browser technologies on the horizon (and in most cases, largely already here) that will power the future of Ajax applications and disrupt today's applications.

The Ajax community has done a fantastic job of leveraging the capabilities of modern browsers and pushing them to the limit. Now, multi-year efforts to extend the capabilities of browsers into exciting new areas is finally bearing fruit.

Browsers have traditionally been viewed as a web page renderer. However, so-called “modern browsers” are becoming serious application run-time platforms. These changes in the browser components will revolutionize the way web applications are developed.

Ajaxian.com co-founders discuss the new browser technologies on the horizon (and in most cases, largely already here) that will power the future of Ajax applications and disrupt today's applications.

These innovations include:

Canvas – an HTML 5 rendering standard that gives programmers much more freedom in creating rich user interfaces
Faster JavaScript – Apple, Mozilla, and Google are upgrading the speed of the web
Tight integration between the desktop and the browser
Web workers – an HTML 5 standard for pushing JavaScript tasks into the background in order to keep the user interface responsive
Bespin – a web-based code editor built to take advantage of these innovations
Keynote from The Ajax Experience 2009, September 14-16, 2009 in Boston, MA