[Web-SIG] Just lost another one to Rails
Ian Bicking
ianb at colorstudy.com
Mon May 2 06:49:32 CEST 2005
Greg Wilson wrote:
> * AJAX support (I think Rails' most compelling feature may turn out to
> be the fact that it does more AJAX straight out of the box than anything
> else --- they're definitely going to ride that wave)
My own take on this is that the web development community on the whole
is still very uneducated when it comes to Ajax stuff, so it's
intimidating. Rails covers up a few details and provides some
suggestions (e.g., a specific Javascript helper library), so it helps
people get past the initial barriers. But as Ajax becomes part of the
normal web developer's toolkit, what Rails provides won't be that
important. I think things will change radically as actual Javascript
developer communities start to come about -- right now they are uncommon
and usually attached to other projects (like Rails or Nevow), but that's
not driven by any technical issue, just by cultural issues (Javascript
isn't the core skill for many developers). I believe strongly that the
future of Ajax needs to be backend-neutral.
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Ian Bicking / ianb at colorstudy.com / http://blog.ianbicking.org
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