Articles by Jon Ferraiolo

Final Voting Phase on OpenAjax Browser Wishlist

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:45:00 EDT

The OpenAjax Alliance is developing an Ajax industry wishlist for future browsers, using a dedicated wiki. The feature list now lists 37 separate feature requests, covering a wide range of technology areas, such as security, Comet, multimedia, CSS, interactivity, and performance.

Call for Feedback on OpenAjax Conformance and OpenAjax Registry

Fri, 30 May 2008 03:00:00 EDT

The OpenAjax Alliance is requesting industry feedback on two companion initiatives, OpenAjax Conformance and the OpenAjax Registry, which have been under development for the past year. These two technologies have now entered a public review phase that ends on June 30, 2008.

Good News for AJAX – The Browser Wars Are Back!

Fri, 23 May 2008 14:15:00 EDT

After years of dominance by a single browser, Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE), and few advances within IE, the world has changed. There is now healthy competition among multiple browsers over standards compliance, AJAX features, AJAX performance and trustworthy computing. The competition is reaching beyond the desktop to include the emerging world of mobile browsing. This healthy competition will result in important new capabilities within AJAX toolkits and will help accelerate the adoption of Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 technologies.

OpenAjax Alliance Call-to-Action to AJAX Developers for Browser Wishlist

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:30:00 EDT

The OpenAjax Alliance is developing an AJAX industry wishlist for future browsers, using a dedicated wiki for this initiative. The main purpose of the initiative is to inform the browser vendors about what future features are most important to the AJAX community and why. So far, the alliance has interviewed roughly a dozen industry leaders, including representatives from the ASP.NET AJAX, Dojo, Ext JS, Douglas Crockford of JSON fame, jQuery, Spry, and XAP, and recently held a townhall discussion on the feature request list among its members. The members have concluded that the wishlist (~25 items) is ready for public comments.

AJAX and Mashup Security

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:15:00 EST

One of the foundations of Web security is the 'same-origin' policy, which is widely implemented by Web browsers, including the most popular ones (e.g., Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Opera). Browsers implement the same-origin policy as a protection mechanism in order to isolate Web applications coming from different domains, under the assumption that different domains represent different originators.

Introducing OpenAjax Hub 1.0

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:00:00 EDT

The OpenAjax Alliance is an organization of leading vendors, open source projects, and companies using AJAX that are dedicated to the successful adoption of open and interoperable AJAX-based Web technologies. This article introduces the alliance's first major technical product, OpenAjax Hub 1.0.

OpenAjax Alliance: A Remarkable First Year and Plans for the Future!

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 06:30:00 EDT

The OpenAjax Alliance is a consortium of companies that are active in the AJAX industry. It was founded on May 15, 2006, concluded a governing Members Agreement in October 2006, and now has more than 80 member organizations, including industry giants such as Adobe, BEA, Cisco, ESRI, Fidelity, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Mozilla, Oracle, SAP, and Sun. The alliance's home page at www.openajax.org shows the full list of members.

The OpenAjax Technology Vision: Accelerating Customer Success with AJAX

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:45:00 EDT

The Alliance's mission is to accelerate customer success with AJAX by promoting a customer¹s ability to mix and match solutions from AJAX technology providers and by helping to drive the future of the AJAX ecosystem.

When Does AJAX Make Business Sense?

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:00:00 EDT

Hard-nosed executives recognize that there are costs associated with any benefit. To convince today's upper-level decision makers to approve strategic investments, they need to hear more than phrases like 'essential to the business,' 'the results are too unpredictable,' and 'yields intangible benefits.' In the world of Web development, the move from HTML to AJAX-powered HTML can often be achieved at a relatively low cost, but there are both direct and indirect costs associated with AJAX that must be taken into account. A close analysis of these factors will enable business managers to make more well informed decisions when considering AJAX adoption in a particular application and across their organization.