Comments By: Jason
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Spot on about Ajax. Woowoo, let's DHTML like it's 1999! Frankly, it's embarassing. Is it just me or have things quickly gone from an effort of trying to use javascript (including ajax) only when it degrades gracefully to having tons of sites that completely won't function without js enabled with no warning whatsoever made by developers that should know better? One rather high-profile site I browsed to the other day had its layout completely broken with javascript disabled. No message to alert people that it was needed and what's worse is that I could find absolutely no way for anything on the page to even benefit from let alone require javascript. Oh, and to put it simply, "Web 2.0" is just spin that in reality translates to, "next generation web-marketing." User-centric, semantic web, blah blah blah... it's all a big sham pumped up by pundits that stand to gain from people believing and buying into the non-sense. I believe I out-ranted you. ;)posted on Jan 31, 2007 at 2:12pm | context