• September 5

Apocalypse 2.0 The day the web broke

Found this article on Digg, and just thinking about this makes me cringe. If what he’s saying is true, which it most likely is, then my life is about to become a big pile of hate. Can’t we all just get along?

Apocalypse 2.0 – the day the web broke by ZDNet’s Ryan Stewart — On February 16th, 2005, Jesse James Garrett coined the term Ajax in an article titled “Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications”. Days before that, on February 8th, the Google Blog announced something called Google Maps. Ajax was born and the web hasn’t been the same since. The combination of JavaScript, DHTML and CSS seemed to breathe a new kind of life into the web. All of a sudden you could program a series of hacks and your web page didn’t behave like a web page before. All that time you spent learning JavaScript? With Ajax, you were in demand again! People started saying things like “JavaScript Engineer” with a straight face.




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  1. Nuck Chorris September 18th

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    I recently read an article about how Google’s brand of AJAX opens up a lot of holes for cross-site script hacks. Interesting to see where it goes… http://neosmart.net/blog/archives/194 or ha.ckers.org/blog/20060704/cross-site-scripting-vulnerability-in-google/


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