The Future of AJAX and the Rich Web

jg21 writes "This AJAXWorld Magazine article indicates how far AJAX has come since devs complained here two years ago that it sucked all the time. Eight experts were asked what questions we should now all be asking about where AJAX is headed next. The suggested questions are refreshingly hard-headed, including: 'How are we to fix the web?'; 'When will AJAX development finally be easy?'; and 'Do we really need JavaScript 2.0? Won't it be somewhat irrelevant by the time it becomes commonplace and thus usable?' One of the most interesting questions came from Kevin Hakman, co-founder of TIBCO's General Interface: 'On what timeline will AJAX skills become commoditized like HTML skills became?'"

Comments

I, for one, welcome

[Finallyjoined!!!]

Our Ajax overlords :^D Couldn't resist...

Re:AJAX vs. Flash is the real question

[ThePromenader]

Well, as soon as search engines learn how to "read into" flash, for starters. Otherwise the web (for Google) will turn into one giant, blank page.

Re:will AJAX development finally be easy?

[SharpFang]

2 weeks is time since picking up the book till you can start writing your first PHP app.

And your app will be obviously of the 'my first app' quality.

The whole point of my post was that you need a month to get from zero to "Yay, I know how to write AJAX" level.
Then you need another 2-3 months to realize "I don't really know AJAX at all."
Then another year to really know it.

(this is assuming you're working on AJAX full-time, not 'in between other projects'.)

Yes, I have 'Programmer' on my resume.

No, I don't really know AJAX. I just know how much I don't know.