Saturday, February 18th, 2006
Happy Birthday, Ajax!
Category: Ajax
Where are we today?
- Technorati shows “Ajax” mentions have risen almost tenfold in the past year (via Ajax Magazine).
- At least 17 books with “Ajax” in the title, not to mention those about DHTML and Javascript, as well as those with chapters on Ajax.
- 90+ Ajax-related frameworks, many of them having begun in the past year.
- Dozens of community sites and bloggers.
- Plenty of Ajax Events happening too.
- Moreover, the web feels alive again. It is becoming easier to use every day, less in the way.
Here are a few things on the horizon for the web – we expect to hear more about these in the next twelve months:
- SVG/Canvas graphics
- Local storage
- Push and the Two-Way Web
- Javascript improvements
- Improved frameworks, libraries, IDEs, tools
- More sophisticated design patterns and lots more programming and browser hacks.
What’s on your Ajax radar? Where do you see this going in the next twelve months?
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Heh heh, I deliberately waited till the end of the day to post about this to see if anyone else had noticed ;-)
I’m hoping that other client-side scripting languages, such as Python, Ruby and Io, will supplement JavaScript within a few years. JavaScript is fine, but its syntax is bloated.
I feel Portals and CMS space will see a lot of Ajax development in coming days. Already people started looking for alternatives of not refeshing a whole portal page if a single portlet undergoes state change and one of the idea is having Ajax Portlets.
Shishank
Daniel: Unfortunately a lot of that rests on browser support (for the mass audience, anyway) and even JavaScript has only just reached a point where it has mass reliability (in its more powerful forms) on the main browsers of the day :-(
I thought AJAX had been around for a long long time. Just that no one was using it on a wide scale?
I think we’re celebrating the branding of it rather than the invention of the disparate technologies. Ultimately I think this branding has helped the cause.
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I have a old game that I think is a badmitten but not sure it has wood poles and two rackets and says Ajax on the poles and rackets. Does anyone know anything about this game it is in an old wood box. Would like any info you can give me.
thanks
Happy Birthday Ajax! Where is the party?
I am still waiting for AJAX on mobile to explode. Going too slow after 2 years :)
Gee happy birthday and now christmas time is around the corner already!! Have a good one buddy!
“This is an important article because it captures a growing trend in Ajax, a trend I had in mind when I said we expect to hear more about “Push and the Two-Way Web†in the next twelve months, on the occasion of Ajax’s birthday. There will, of course, be people saying “there’s nothing new here”
Interesting concept. But today i will take it easy and go skiing if you dont mind. The slopes are calling me. My girfriend wants to take her snowboard…oh well..lets go!
Sure just do that and in the mean time i will wake your dog Fred! You luky one to have my sister as your girlfriend :) ok i m gone to walk your little dog bye!
wow. Lotsa friends to wish you happy birthday. I like to see tips and tricks on videos now so go make a movie about it lol