Dave Winer and the "Truth" about RDF
So quoth Dave Winer; After all these years, I’ve concluded that if I can’t understand it, it doesn’t have much of a chance in the market. Well, without taking potshots at Dave, I think this is a fairly...
View ArticleDeclarative Drag-and-drop
I was looking through the scriptaculous drag-and-drop pages tonight, and stumbled upon this markup/script snippet; <div id="photo1"> <img ... /> </div> <script...
View ArticleTowards best practices for mashups
I previously pointed to the announcement of the shutdown of a version of the Google Adwords API, and commented that this really isn’t the way to go about versioning your Web 2.0 APIs. I’ve been digging...
View ArticleWAP-think invades Mobile Web 2.0
How has Mobile Web 2.0 come to this; One way that Web 2.0 companies can similarly adjust their services for mobile devices is by relying less on browser-based applications and more on small software...
View ArticleDeclarative Ajax catching on
Just a quick followup on a previous piece, Ajaxian picked up a couple of declarative Javascript stories today; Declaritive Ajax components and XML namespaces, referencing a great Dave Johnson post. a...
View ArticleApollo and the Google brand
This report about Google’s brand power reminds me of a discussion I had with a guy from Adobe at ETech who was pushing Apollo. I was trying to figure out why somebody would want to use it, and this...
View ArticleGoogle Gears: too much interface?
So I had a quick look at Google Gears this morning. Unlike some, I do most definitely see value in supporting disconnected scenarios, not because I don’t see pervasive wired and wireless networks being...
View ArticleMobile Ajax Workshop position paper
I’ve posted the position paper I authored for the W3C/OpenAjax Workshop on Mobile Ajax. It’s all about the value of declarative application development, which I’ve discussed before.The post Mobile Ajax...
View ArticleEmbedded Google maps: more opacity
I think Google really missed the mark with its attempt at embeddable maps. I suppose something is better than nothing for the myriads of folks who want this functionality, but when a simpler, less...
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