The Web 2.0
What the heck is web 2.0? Did Al Gore roll out a new version of the Internet without informing me? Or maybe, did Microsoft buy it and plan on stuffing it inside its long-awaited “VistaHorn” release? Seriously though, web 2.0, as a broad and all-future-possibility-encompassing practice is, well, in practice, a good idea.
Personally, I think web 2.0 really means; “We’ve stopped making websites that stagnate and just take up hard disk space with our boring HTML brochure sites.” Web 2.0 websites will feature rich-content in a friendly, usable, interactive way, with accessibility to a plethora of users being one of the main concerns.
In the pursuit of end-user happiness, I believe that the big AJAX trend will slowly start to see its end. I know that sounds odd, but I believe AJAX will give way to much more customizable, easier to develop applications on the web, like Flash. Or PDF-Lash, or whatever they’re going to call it now.
With the Adobe Macromedia merger, the two giants are bound to create something fresh with the online vector format (or ruin it.) Adobe’s SVG was a good stab at a Flash competitor, and Macromedia’s Flashpaper was a good stab at PDF, but with both companies working toward a single goal, I’m hoping for a universal rich-media, interactive format for the web that’s easy to develop and maintain. I’m also hoping for a format that is as search engine friendly as HTML is.
However, web 2.0, or 1.1.1.3.596, or whatever we’re at right now, let’s not wait to begin developing interesting, intriguing, intellectual experiences for our friends, our clients, and our potential clients to start enjoying. The web is capable of handling 2.0, or even 3.0 features today. The only thing holding back the tide is companies slow to adopt new technologies and techniques–companies comfortable in their little web 1.0 boxes.
Personally, I think web 2.0 really means; “We’ve stopped making websites that stagnate and just take up hard disk space with our boring HTML brochure sites.” Web 2.0 websites will feature rich-content in a friendly, usable, interactive way, with accessibility to a plethora of users being one of the main concerns.
In the pursuit of end-user happiness, I believe that the big AJAX trend will slowly start to see its end. I know that sounds odd, but I believe AJAX will give way to much more customizable, easier to develop applications on the web, like Flash. Or PDF-Lash, or whatever they’re going to call it now.
With the Adobe Macromedia merger, the two giants are bound to create something fresh with the online vector format (or ruin it.) Adobe’s SVG was a good stab at a Flash competitor, and Macromedia’s Flashpaper was a good stab at PDF, but with both companies working toward a single goal, I’m hoping for a universal rich-media, interactive format for the web that’s easy to develop and maintain. I’m also hoping for a format that is as search engine friendly as HTML is.
However, web 2.0, or 1.1.1.3.596, or whatever we’re at right now, let’s not wait to begin developing interesting, intriguing, intellectual experiences for our friends, our clients, and our potential clients to start enjoying. The web is capable of handling 2.0, or even 3.0 features today. The only thing holding back the tide is companies slow to adopt new technologies and techniques–companies comfortable in their little web 1.0 boxes.
1 Comments:
I agree with you completely about companies not embracing new technologies. Being employed with a Microsoft partner company has revealed to me that new and exciting technologies aren't implemented until Microsoft has properly ruined them and adopted the technology as its own invention.
Regarding PDF's: PDF files are already search engine friendly, as are Word and Excel Documents. There has been a push recently in the area of a unified SVG interface, which i'm sure Adobecromedia, or Macrobe or whatever, are working on at this time.
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