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Michael Champion writes: > This finding reminds me of the emperor in "Amadeus" telling Mozart that he > used too many notes. If the Web really did follow the W3C's lead, the > current state-of-the-art web applications would never have been invented. > These tend to download semi-opaque blobs of Javascript which open a side > channel to the server for data, and the data tends to be JSON serialization > of internal objects more than declarative data. I can just hear Sir Tim > saying "It's quality work. There is simply too much power. Just cut some of > that power and it will be perfect." :-) And if all the data on the Web were in this much more "current state-of-the-art" style, would Google search do anything useful? Would its crawler run all those little client side front ends to make those side connections to find out whether some useful information could be extracted? Or have we decided that things like Google search are passé too? The point is not that Ajax is bad, IMO, it's that the simple data that feeds AJAX apps should not be entirely locked up in little private point-to-point "side channels". It should be published with URIs and in easily consumed forms. Then Google (and MS Live) crawlers can find the flight listings, gas stations, real estate listings, or whatever. If some of the options for consuming that data really cool, dynamically downloaded applications, that's cool: you can still mash the listings into MS Live Maps if you like. Noah -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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