Web Meets World (web 2.0)

The commercial web is now a teenager—it’s been fifteen short years since Marc Andreessen released the Mosaic browser. To put this in perspective, television as a commercial medium reached its fifteenth birthday in 1956—the year Elvis Presley made his first appearance on national TV. National news broadcasts were still in their infancy, “As The World [...]

Adobe Flex

Adobe Flex is a collection of technologies released by Adobe Systems for the development and deployment of cross platform rich Internet applications based on the proprietary Adobe Flash platform. The initial release in March 2004 by Macromedia included a software development kit, an IDE, and a J2EE integration application known as Flex Data Services. Since [...]

History of Ajax Components

Ajax is the acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. However, rather than functioning as an acronym it better describes a technique for producing faster, more interactive, and usable web pages that don’t require re-loading every time a user changes a request. This is accomplished by increasing web page responsive-ness through the exchange of small pieces [...]

Ajax Challenges Web Development Leaders — And Web Publishers And Advertisers

A do-it-yourself approach to creating Web software called Ajax relies on a mishmash of existing Web technologies to create a new breed of fast, highly interactive sites. The trend is already befuddling traditional vendors of Web development software, and if these kinds of interactive apps continue to catch on, they could force Web publishing, advertising, [...]