Bosworth On Why AJAX Failed, Then Succeeded 265
An anonymous reader writes "eWeek has a story describing a talk by former Microsoft developer Adam Bosworth, now a VP at Google, entitled 'Physics, Speed and Psychology: What Works and What Doesn't in Software, and Why.' Bosworth depicts issues with processing, broadband, natural language, and human behavior; and he dishes on Microsoft." Quoting: "'Back in '96-'97, me and a group of people... helped build stuff that these days is called AJAX,' Bosworth said. 'We sat down and took a hard look at what was going to happen with the Internet and we concluded, in the face of unyielding opposition and animosity from virtually every senior person at Microsoft, that the thick client was on its way out and it was going to be replaced by browser-based apps. Saying this at Microsoft back in '96 was roughly equivalent to wandering around in a fire wearing matches,' he said. 'But we concluded we should go and build this thing. And we put all this stuff together so people could build thin-client applications... Now you hear about AJAX all the time, but this was built in '97,' Bosworth said. Yet, AJAX failed for a variety of reasons, including some 'big mistakes.'"
Re:Me too. (Score:5, Funny)
Ahem... (Score:5, Funny)
AJAX is still failing for me, you insensitive clod.
Yeah, but does AJAX run Linux?
1. Invent AJAX at Microsoft
2. Use AJAX at Google
3. ???
4. PROFIT!!!
Ajax is still failing. Netcraft confirms it.
I, for one, welcome our new AJAX-inventing overlords.
Imagine AJAX naked, petrified, and covered in hot grits.
AJAX must be new here...
Re:me and a group of people??? (Score:3, Funny)
As the casual reader will not quite catch the absurdity of the underlying pronoun use, but more likely just catch that the pronoun is improperly positioned (me before group), that incorrect pronoun is then only caught in the subconscious resulting in that caveman association previously described.
Having subliminally caused hundreds of slashdot readers to equate him as such, he is then lent a slightly higher credence as "a good ol' boy" from "way back" who has obviously had a lot of experience.
Re:Ahem... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:framework (Score:5, Funny)
Asynchronous xml, something (kinda) new from M$ (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft embraces and extends*.
One day, by mistake, Microsoft creates something new.
Microsoft then proceed to bury the mistake until the folks of Mozilla discover and implement it.
Having become a competing technology Microsoft embraces it and AJAX becomes a success.
* Bill's wife is in fact from soviet russia. She embraces and "extends" him.
Re:Me too. (Score:5, Funny)
It was a high school web design class. By which I mean it was WYSIWYG-based, no HTML, no JS, no coding. The irony lies in the fact that I still couldn't pass it.
Watching that teachers house burn down was one of the greatest feelings I've ever had, and for only the cost of a liter of gasoline...
Am I the only one who thought... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:AJAX is a silly acronym (Score:5, Funny)
Re:AJAX? stop the web 2.0 buzzword bullshit (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Me too. (Score:3, Funny)
<assistant type=limerick>
<prompt>You appear to be writing a limerick...</prompt>
<suggestion>
There was once an instructor at JC
Who taught but didn't even know C
A student of course
complained because
in the end he saw a C for C
</suggestion>
<assistant>
We Need a Generalized Acronym (Score:4, Funny)
I propose Asynchronous Scripting Embracing XML Using Any Language
ASEXUAL. It works to both describe the technique and many of the people who use it. Bah-dum-ching! Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week.