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May 10, 2006
"Ajax Experience" questions
"Ajax Experience" questions: Good conference at the San Francisco St. Francis this week: "In one location, you will have the opportunity to interact and network with all of the individuals driving the Ajax phenomenon today!" I like JavaScript (how can anyone not?), and I like these people (they're trying to achieve something, which is always admirable), but sometimes the marketing confuses me. I'll be looking forward to seeing how the participants here talk with each other, how they listen, how they develop ideas -- that nonverbal context to bare weblog text will be valuable for me. In the extended entry are notes on questions I'd like to ask people at the event... thinking-in-public on my part, but also hoping for guidance and additional perspective if you've got it, thanks.
I'll be particularly trying to ask these questions of people who invested in attending, more than the panelists and entrepreneurs.
Rank the following
-- HTML pages which validate to tag specs
-- accessibility, whether WCAG validation or other meaning
-- total audience reach
-- the exhibition of personal technical prowess
-- features, richness
-- development cost
-- development, support, and maintainence costs
-- approachable experience for new users
-- efficient experience for longtime users
-- usability on the TV or mobile
What is your audience support plan? how do you handle visitors who don't arrive in "any modern browser"?
What types of statistics do you have on the audiences of various websites, and whether their browser offers XmlHttpRequest?
How do you handle client negotiations on which browsers visitors may arrive in?
What problems have you found when changing visitors' expectations of what "a web page" is? do you bring data-refreshes to their attention in any way? ("yellow fade", etc)
Have there been recent jobs where you've wanted to go "beyond the browser", into more of a persistent or background type of network activity? details?
In your business, when people say "rich" to you, what do you think they mean?
What specific problem are you trying to solve with Ajax? (either the literary marketing-style "Ajax" or the actual requests for live text data in XML format)
How do you handle video today? how would you like to handle it tomorrow?
What types of projects do you think you might be handling in 2010?
I suspect I may hear that label "proprietary" more than I'd like to, and I'll have to watch myself... "I feel the same about processor chips, which is why I build my systems from scratch, and of course we both must be urban gardners too right?", that would be satisfying, sure, but hardly diplomatic. If someone goes "Flash, oh well, it's proprietary" then I'll probably try to ask them what, specifically, they're concerned about, but not everyone hears that question accurately.
Posted by John Dowdell at May 10, 2006 08:51 AM
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