Flash, HTML, Ajax: Which will win the Web app war?

Web klienten bliver smartere og smartere. Drømmen om at webben og desktoppen smelter sammen i én kommer tættere og tættere på. Hvem kommer til at fylde mest i det nye rum? Hvem dikterer den nye platform. Ingen af de nedenfor nævnte eller dem alle sammen. Slaget kommer til at stå imellem MS og GOGL om hvem der leverer fremtidens basisvare, men når det kommer til at bringe applikationen ud til brugeren bliver det en hård ligeværdig kamp imellem flere af de nævnte (og kommende) teknologier. Hvem siger ikke at Adobes Flash eller MS' Silverlight stille og roligt smelter sammen med AJAX og REST? Fremtidens web værktøj bliver formentlig det bedste fra alle verdener - det er i hvert fald hvad jeg håber på.

The Web client becomes smarter and smarter. The dream about melting the web and the desktop together in one platform comes closer and closer. Who is gonna take up the space in the future of web development? None of the below mentioned or them all. The battle is for going to be fought between giants MS and GOGL - who will deliver the basis for the future? When it comes to delivering the tools for the engineers of the future apllications it's gonna be a close tie between the mentioned (and coming) technologies. Who says that Adobe Flash and MS Silverlight won't melt together with AJAX and REST? The future web tools will be the best from all worlds - or so I choose to believe.

/Sik



By Stephen Shankland – August 11, 2008 4:00 AM PDT

The days when Web pages were static collections of text and graphics are long past. But as the Web matures, there's a fierce competition over which technology will propel it into a medium for rich, interactive applications.

On one side of the battle lines is the original Web page description technology called HTML, or Hypertext Markup Language. Over the years, its abilities were augmented first with JavaScript, a basic programming language, and later a JavaScript-on-steroids technology called Ajax.

On the other side is Adobe Systems' Flash, which got its start as a method for graphic animations. It's grown into a much more powerful programming foundation over the years and has been joined more recently by a competitor: Microsoft's Silverlight.

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