I need to rant. Again ^^.
I’m so pestered by “Web 2.0”. Or should I say AJAX. Or whatever you want to call it.
As a software developer, I learnt that you need a strong foundation to put your complex code on. Now, look at the Web 2.0. We don’t even have a platform, since it only exists in the minds of people and some documents. What we really have is [**BLEEP*CENSORED**] browsers that do things their own way with no sign of stability or coherence. And upon that, people, you build your applications?
Ho, ho, ho. Now I have a machine gun.
Since then, I got used to ignore 95% of sites that require JabbaScript and Gookies. It’s all turned off except for some sites I really fancy. The others that I visit on a regular basis do work without. My own ones do as well, of course.
I can see the pain … I have worked with IBM 3270 terminal technology, and that was even dumber than HTML1 forms. But I am convinced we took the wrong turn at some junction back in the past. OTOH, who knows – CORBA virtually died [it does seem to have some lazarus ambition, though], maybe AJAX will go the same way once developer’s minds settle on something feasible again.
I just hope.
You’re not actually still reading this, are ya?
I agree!
I think AJAX is… hackish. It may produce pretty pages, but logically it’s a mess. Don’t feel bad. This sort of thing happens. Too many people with great influence with little knowledge of what they are actually doing.
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