Comments on: RIA – Ajax versus Flash guesswork

By: vijucat

vijucat — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 03:58:13 +0000

Hassan, I see your point about Flash being compiled. I, too, hate the fact that Ctrl-F (for example) doesn’t work over all the text inside a Flash app.

I think Adobe has the resources and talent to solve this part of the puzzle and make text inside SWFs indexable by search robots, but being a big corporation, ideas take time to become reality.

By: Hassan

Hassan — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:06:38 +0000

my feeling is that the web is about text UIs, text is easy to write, easy to index, easy to link to…, plug a compiled object into a web page and y’re off standards, bots won’t be indexing your content, search engine giants won’t be very happy…, and overall, any excessive use of non text content over the web harms it’s initial intent.

so my bet is the search giants won’t let flex gui’s get too much ahead of text based gui’s like ajax and w’ll see very strong AJAX frameworks released to the public very soon

By: mansu

mansu — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:23:42 +0000

I am reading loads and loads of stuff on Ajax and i feel that these companies are just reinventing the wheel or Old wine in a New bottle.

There is one thing which everyone i saw ignored.There were UI’s in the .Com boom that were either written in Java or using activeX.Atleast on IE i have seen some good UI being designed.(Though i am not sure if they used anything more). But i feel that ActiveX is a good idea that was badly executed, because being able to control devices from anywhere using the internet is really cool.

But i feel that down the line Ajax hype will cool down when we get many players providing good UI’s. But after that people will come back and think about what MS is planning to do. Atleast , if you want to do things you see in MS ad’s, the web is just a peice of the puzzle.

I may be very wrong in my speculation, but if i were the user 5 years down the line, i do not think Ajax will satisfy me.