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March 14, 2006
Having been putting a lot of work into catching up on what's been going down with Web 2.0 since I stopped developing. Looking back at our first attempts at AJAX and comparing them to the present saturation of frameworks sort of makes you wonder whether we're back in the nineties. There's not too much I can say that hasn't already been covered on TechCrunch or Ajaxian (let alone linked to from one of them), but needless to say, I'm starting to warm up to it again.
xajax was the first framework I'd used, and I'd even written an article on using it with PEAR's DB_DataObjects and Smarty last August.
Since then, it looks like RoR's usage of Prototype has brought that JavaScript library into real maturity, and I have to admit that the Prototype/Scriptaculous combination is a solid one. The one issue I see is that it promotes client-side code, which is IMO harder to debug than server-side code. Of course, this also results in a lower server load, so for large-scale flashy projects, it's likely the better solution.
ANyway, Jill's here now, so more later.
Posted by mjbommar at March 14, 2006 09:47 AM