因為有了 Gmail , Google Suggest 這些對 Javascript 的運用得好的 Web Application,大家都開始推測:上年是 css 和 web standards 掘起的年 (至少在外國是…),今年則會大量運用新式 Javascript 去提供更好的 Web Application,所謂的新式其實是指不用 browser reload 而更新資料,也就是 XmlHttpRequest。
這篇文章 詳述了了未來的 Web development 的優勢:
- The application lies at only one place
- The user doesn’t need any software
- The user isn’t the administrator
- The administrator is the application’s programmer
- The application makes no assumptions about the user
- Multiple versions is a thing of the past
- It’s lightweight
- It’s portable
- It’s simple and trustworthy
- The app architecture is transparent to the client