Mobile AJAX
I was about to be a big ball ‘o negativity, but I managed to stop myself. After not being nice about the whole Foleo thing earlier, I was going to go right off ranting about the whole Mobile AJAX thing, prompted by reading over the Mobile AJAX FAQ. But then I realized that’s wrong, I shouldn’t just rant all the time. Most of the time perhaps, but not all the time. Instead, I took a deep breath, calmed down, and examined why it is exactly that the mere mention of mobile AJAX normally makes the bile rise in my throat.
I don’t want to rail at Ajit and the other folks working on the FAQ, I know they’re trying to do something positive. So instead I’m trying to find a constructive way to contribute to the conversation. Why is it that I think the discussions about mobile AJAX are just too premature? Why do I consider them ‘dangerous’ even?
Way back in the deep dark depths of time I worked on a DHTML and Javascript project in a faraway galaxy called Rochester NY. I honestly don’t remember when it was, but I have to guess probably 1997. Long enough ago that there was a version of a browser that AOL was distributing that was different enough from whatever its original form was that it was considered a distinct browser. And it was important to pay attention to cause almost everyone was still getting online via AOL disks mailed to them. Very much pre-history. I don’t remember any giant lizards roaming around, but there may have been.
What we were working on was evaluating if the company could replace it’s desktop based relatively thin client installed application with the genuine thin client of a browser plus web app. The problem being that they [...]
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