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September 27th, 2005
In this Era of Interfaces, we have many criss-crossing themes. Among them:
In addition, we have many new questions:
Lots of questions, huh? And I’m sure I’m missing a ton of them, these were the ones I thought of in the last 5 minutes. Got an answer to or a viewpoint on any of them? Drop me an email at bokardo at bokardo daught com or add a comment.
By the way, the posts I linked to in the top section are ones that I’ve written since my first post about the Era of Interfaces, which I did on August 1, 2005, less than 2 months ago! Is the Web changing fast, or what?
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Comments ( 8 Responses so far )
1. CM Harrington on September 27th, 2005 (Comment) #
Lots of questions. My take on the answers (in order):
2. CM Harrington on September 27th, 2005 (Comment) #
eep. Your preview is showing the mark-up, but when I actually hit post, it’s stripping out the tags. That should have been a definition list. Would it be possible to 1) tell us what tags are available, and 2) change the live preview to be accurate based on (1)?
3. Andrew on September 27th, 2005 (Comment) #
Wait, what parts of Flash are going open-source?
4. Gideon Marken on September 27th, 2005 (Comment) #
Joshua, I just found your blog yesterday and subscribed. I selected to answer your posted questions over on my blog today: http://www.gideonmarken.com/index.cfm?blog=515
Thanks for the effort and time, I’ll be reading
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In Reply To: Andrew
I’m not sure what ‘parts’ of Flash Joshua is referring to - possibly Laszlo: http://www.openlaszlo.org/ which is
an xml-based mechanism for generating Flash components and pages - and is now open source. The demos are slick!
5. Josh on September 28th, 2005 (Comment) #
CM, I reformatted your post. And your suggestion is in the queue. You are much more sure about your answers than I am…
6. John Dowdell on September 29th, 2005 (Comment) #
“Wait, what parts of Flash are going open-source?”
I’m not sure of the exact intent either, but I do know that opensource work is a vital part of the larger Flash Platform… here are some current projects:
http://osflash.org/
(Me, I don’t care much about “Ajax vs Flash” discussions… they’re both client software, parts of audience capability you can rely upon… it’s more about finding which technology works best for what than for shoehorning. imho.
jd/mm
7. David Mendels on September 29th, 2005 (Comment) #
Hello,
You ask: is AJAX a Web 2.0 technology? I’d argue that it is an implementation detail. There are a number of UE technologies that can be the front end for a Web 2.0 application. I think there are some qualities that are important: statefullness, the ability to consume and composite multiple back end data sources in multiple formats, scriptability, ubiquity. Ajax, Flash/Flex, and perhaps in the (distant) future MSFT Presentation Foundation all fit the bill.
Regards,
David
(Macromedia)
8. Mike on April 19th, 2006 (Comment) #
Web 2.0 does seem to be a bust. Undoubtedly some good tech has come from it, but it’s certainly more spectacle than anything else. I’d say the best part is content sharing and syndication. The bad is that it’s so stereotyped that you almost want to mock it and joke about it.
Unfortunately it’s really no different from the dotcom bubble and bust from before (well it is, but also has some similarities)… it’s just going to be time to determine whether developers lose trust from investors before or after they go back to what’s really more important (quality design, accessibly and work).