[mdlug] Web 2.0

[Wojtak, Greg]

My favourite example:  http://www.meebo.com

It is a site that allows you to connect to many different IM services over
the web.  Pretty sweet.


On 4/24/07 10:07 AM, "Wolfger" <wolfger at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/23/07, Michael Corral <micorral at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> Yeah, back in the Java 1.1 days applets were indeed not so great.
>> But nowadays, on modern machines, they're much better. Definitely
>> better than the webapps that use AJAX (i.e. DHTML + JavaScript).
>> With all the problems that JavaScript has (to the point where
>> many people just disable it in their browser), I just don't see
>> AJAX as a viable option. The AJAX apps I've seen are horrible.
> 
> I think a couple million (?) Gmail users disagree with you. But you
> are entitiled to your opinion. Personally, I use Firefox to limit what
> Javascript can do, but I leave it enabled. Now I'm not sure of your
> definition of "many", but I guarantee that MOST people do not disable
> Javascript.
> 
>> Web 2.0 in general is just a bunch of hype about nothing.
> 
> Now that I agree with. But AJAX apps (done well) are teh sweet.