Greg Wilson wrote: > * AJAX support (I think Rails' most compelling feature may turn out to > be the fact that it does more AJAX straight out of the box than anything > else --- they're definitely going to ride that wave)
My own take on this is that the web development community on the whole is still very uneducated when it comes to Ajax stuff, so it's intimidating. Rails covers up a few details and provides some suggestions (e.g., a specific Javascript helper library), so it helps people get past the initial barriers. But as Ajax becomes part of the normal web developer's toolkit, what Rails provides won't be that important. I think things will change radically as actual Javascript developer communities start to come about -- right now they are uncommon and usually attached to other projects (like Rails or Nevow), but that's not driven by any technical issue, just by cultural issues (Javascript isn't the core skill for many developers). I believe strongly that the future of Ajax needs to be backend-neutral. -- Ian Bicking / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://blog.ianbicking.org _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
