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AJAXWorld News Desk Web 2.0 vs Web 1.0: Why Ajax is Conceptually Better
"The potential of the Semantic Web is just unimaginably huge"
By: Christian Decker
Oct. 10, 2006 08:00 AM
Ajax has been around for quite some time now and it has lovers and haters. First of all let’s distinguish between two different things that are often confused when we talk about Ajax. What many think to be Ajax are really two independent things:
Many of the haters argue that by using these techniques the programmers make nice applications but make things more difficult, adding complexity to the client, which before Web 2.0 was a viewer, creating portability issues and last but not least excluding all those visitors that do not use a supported browser. But let’s go a bit deeper into the things involved, when building a web service. First of all we’re able to identify three different parts:
This is actually one step forward, but in the meantime a return to the roots of the Web: we now serve “pure data” or content, without all the formatting clutter that scrambled our data back in Web 1.0. The reduction of redundancy is a nice side effect, not having to download the layout on every refresh. The fact that we serve pure data using standard formats and standard protocols allows us to create non-human interaction between a web service and a client, the data is available for further elaboration and is independant of its actual representation in the User Interface. And here we are, welcome to the Semantic Web. Humans are capable of using the Web to, say, find the Swedish word for “car”, renew a library book, or find the cheapest DVD and buy it. But if you asked a computer to do the same thing, it wouldn’t know where to start. That is because web pages are designed to be read by people, not machines. The Semantic Web is a project aimed to make web pages understandable by computers, so that they can search websites and perform actions in a standardized way. The potential benefits are that computers can harness the enormous network of information and services on the Web. Your computer could, for example, automatically find the nearest manicurist to where you live and book an appointment for you that fits in with your schedule. A lot of the things that could be done with the Semantic Web could also be done without it, and indeed already are done in some cases. But the Semantic Web provides a standard which makes such services far easier to implement. [From Wikipedia]The potential of the Semantic Web is just unimaginably huge, to say it with The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy’s words: "it’s big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindboggingly big it is." And there are already some examples:
This article appeared originally as a blog at Christian Decker's web site, http://snyke.net/blog/2006/03/30/why-ajax-is-conceptually-better/. Republished here with the permission of the author. Reader Feedback: Page 1 of 1
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