Web OS : Developing a Web OS

Developing a Web OS:

The major concern for a web OS either online or application based, it should have a light weighted user interface in the sense it should take less space, load quickly and provide a user friendly interface. These concerns have been resolved by applications like Flash and XML scripts.

Flash is a very popular web development tool. The fact that it is so popular is because it offers user to make interactive applications using JavaScript and it also let user to make animations. Flash utilizes vector graphics to construct any application or animation. Vector graphics in take any picture or image in the form of shapes rather than the pixel by pixel due to which they require very less space on the system as well as on the internet. The effective use of flash can be seen on any video streaming websites where browser uses flash player to play the video. Because of these interactive capabilities of flash, it is being utilized in making interface for the web OS.

Another approach for the making of web OS is through XML coding or in more technical terms it is termed as AJAX which stands for “Asynchronous JavaScript and XML” this is a very effective alternate for the Flash. Actually, the AJAX is a pack of different languages used for web development like HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), JavaScript coding, CSS (cascading style sheets) and eXtensible Markup language.

HTML is not a coding language, it is a Markup language where different tags are utilized for different needs. The browser than read these tags and gives out the appropriate result. Once the interface is developed using HTML it should be good looking too, hence to bring upon tweaks in the HTML coded web OS, CSS is used which stands for “cascading style sheets” it boost up the appearance of the web page. Now as our very user friendly interface has been molded, it needs to get communicate with the servers. To fulfill this vacancy JavaScript is used which is a language used for communicating with the servers. An application installed on the computer connects to the server using JavaScript. It also allows bouncing the particular information to the particular servers. Now as we have successfully established the communication between application and server there exist one more problem i.e. nobody knows that which file is related to which type of information i.e. application file should be related to the application server and data should relate itself with the data server, to solve this problem XML is used. This keeps the files and information related to it in its virtual box systematically. The best feature of AJAX is its asynchronous communication. By the virtue of this, information can be send and receive between computer and server in small packets whenever needed thus utilizing the resources.

This is how a web OS is developed. Another capability of Flash and AJAX is that they are cross platform languages and can be used on any operating system.