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Monday, February 26th, 2007

Thoughts on the Open Ajax Alliance

Category: Editorial, JavaScript, jQuery

<>p>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.

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good finding

Comment by test — February 26, 2007

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.

Comment by Jon Ferraiolo — February 27, 2007

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.

Comment by tshirts — August 11, 2007

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.

Comment by portraits — December 19, 2007

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