Tohir Solomons

Has Ajax ruffled Web Standards?

Posted on the October 14th, 2005 under Uncategorized by Tohir

Ajax is great, but does it conform to web standards? This is tantamount to asking – is it legal? (Islamically – is it Halaal to use?)

Manton Reece hits the nail on the head when he writes:

We’ve got to drop this “web standards” holy war and just get on with building next generation apps.

http://www.manton.org/2005/02/ajax_flash.html

The question could well be asked: “Is web standards keeping the web from its true potential?” Many feel that web standards and the W3C moves too slowly. The keep defining the common ground, not truly taking the web forward.

On the positive side, its seems that web standards have been forced to relook the issue of Ajax. The Web Standards Project has set up a taskforce to look at DOM Scripting. In its own way, the W3C held a discussion on it. http://www.w3.org/2005/07/05-tagmem-minutes.html

The bottom line would be an individual answer to: What do you want the web to be you? If you want the web to be accessible, go web standards. If you want the web to be interactive, go Ajax. Many developers are asking: Can we have the web accessible and interactive