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Douglas Crockford: The State of Ajax
It isn't every day that Douglas Crockford (the father of JSON and JSLint) pops up with a new tech talk. In this one he discusses the current state of Ajax development, why mashups are inherently insecure, why the standards process is broken, and how our best hope for a newer better platform may be mobile. Say what?
Basically he proposes the idea that because the replacement rate on mobile phones is so quick (around 2 years) it would be possible to move that industry to a new platform for website interactivity. The traditional PC market moves slowly and requires that you support many many legacy platforms. But with mobile, you can run and gun with your technology and count on people upgrading. A new web platform for mobile could be Flash, it could be Silverlight, it could be a future version of ECMA Script (JavaScript) with a better CSS implementation.
The video also gives a good overview of the history of computing over networks and why the web has lagged behind on everything from rounded corners to security.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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ronin691 said 12:40PM on 11-08-2007
"...with mobile, you can run and gun with your technology and count on people upgrading"
That assumes every other year each handset maker will release an entirely new, proprietary platform. A better assumption would be to just develop for Android with Opera as the mobile browser.
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Will said 6:53PM on 11-08-2007
OMG, the Evangelical Architect title should have been warning that this tool was going to ramble on about useless crap for the first third of the video...
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enzo said 4:49PM on 11-08-2007
Pretty bleak outlook, I'd say...
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Colin said 11:42PM on 11-09-2007
@3/Will:
I don't even know where to start with you, so I'll sum it up: STFU.
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Colin said 12:28AM on 11-10-2007
@2/enzo:
Howso? It seems pretty upbeat to me. The only bleak aspect I can see is that it's going to require us web developers to update our applications rather than sit back and let the money flow in.
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