Monday, February 26th, 2007
Category: Editorial
, JavaScript, jQuery
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>John Resig gives his honest opinion on the
Open Ajax Alliance (which his employer is a part of, Mozilla).
John talks about technical and non-technical issues:
- First he hits out at how corporate the alliance is
- Then he talks about the OpenAjax Hub and a few items he would like different
In short: The OpenAjax Alliance needs to seriously consider opening up their process to all Open Source JavaScript Libraries, helping to make their standards more practical and effective. Additionally, the OpenAjax Hub should be severely downsized, and reconsidered, if not removed entirely, as its addition serves little practical benefits (that a set of requirements couldn’t solve).
I am sure there is room to move here, and these things can be cleaned up.
- Sun gets serious about Ajax
Sun Microsystems Inc. demonstrates a commitment to Ajax with its new involvement with to alliances working on Ajax technology, the OpenAJAX Alliance...
- OpenAjaxHub spec emerges
Ajax has reached the point where standards are needed to assure vendor interoperability. OpenAjax Hub, the first major specification from the OpenAjax...
- Sun joins Ajax Alliance
Sun Microsystems has joined the OpenAjax Alliance, the industry body set up to promote use of the open source Ajax web development...
- OpenAjax gets new partners
The OpenAjax Alliance has further opened itself up by signing up new partners and launching a new website to drive Ajax-based web...
- Microsoft passes OpenAjax tests
Microsoft announced it passed the OpenAjax InteropFest 1.0 tests and is interoperable with other Ajax components in the OpenAjax ecosystem through the...
good finding
There are several responses to John’s comments now at http://ejohn.org/blog/thoughts-on-openajax/, including my own, which begins with: “OpenAjax Alliance definitely wants all of the major Ajax toolkit developers to join the effort. ” John has provided lots of good feedback in his posting. We hope John joins OpenAjax Alliance and encourage others independent Ajax toolkit developers to join, also.
I found John’s statements very interesting, and thanks to the above poster for the wonderful link to the other comments. Great conversation. The statement I found interesting was that he said the alliance was ‘too corporate.’ This is an interesting assessment… and, dare I say, correct in many ways. Corporate really does need to go in every sense of the traditional understanding of the word, and I don’t think things will truly move forward until it does.
Interesting! And it’s great that you’ve given us the link to some comments. Somehow I was enlightened as to how people reacted on this issue. I was able to learn some good reasons regarding this matter. And since we’re going to include this in our group’s next discussion I’m sure I’ll have lots of things to say.