Web Trends 2006 for Web Developers: “2006 is just around the corner, and that means that it is time to bring some (vague) predictions for this web business we are in. The AJAX hype will go on – but eventually fail The rather sickening hype of AJAX is going to continue, and it will get very big in the first 6-8 months of 2006. But, as the end of 2006 nears AJAX, is going to fail. The reason is not because of AJAX itself – AJAX (or AHAX) is great tool. But, you do not base your decisions on a specific tool. You base your decisions on solving people’s problems and goals. If AJAX turns out to be useful in a certain scenario – use it. Remember that we have been able to do what AJAX does for a long time – with frames. Frames were also at some point surrounded with hype, how many of us have created sites where only a small part of it changed. But, in the end we realized that this cool thing really got in the way of more important stuff. This does not mean that AJAX will go away – rather the inverse. It will be a reduced to what it really is – a tool, and effectively hidden from both the developers and the end-user. Web 2.0 is going to be the next ‘dot.com’ wave The Web 2.0 driven community is going to start our next big dot.com wave. Although it will not be as big as the first one and the money involved will be “
