WhyAjaxStandardsMatter

From MashupCamp

Panel Discussion: Why AJAX Standards Matter

Monday, November 17, 2008 | 10:20am - 11:20am

Write a mashup once, run it anywhere? Hardly. All AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) applications may not be mashups. But a great many mashups are AJAX applications. So long as the browser-based applications you're building include AJAX code, that code is impacted by the tool used for development, the APIs being called, and the browsers it's expected to run in. For the first time ever at Mashup Camp, we'll be hosting an OpenAJAX pavilion where attendees can see some OpenAJAX-compliant solutions in action. But is such a standard necessary to guarantee code-level interoperability? Particularly from one app dev environment to the next? In this panel, we'll discuss where the lack of such a standard could imperil the efficiency of mashup development and what if any relief a standard like OpenAJAX can offer.

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