How Can Ajax Destroy Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is all about user related services and products. Website after website are being created everyday and introduced to the public as a Web 2.0 type of site: a user-content driven website that relies on the interaction of users for its success. The developers on the other hand have to ensure the smooth flow of operation in the website. With Web 2.0 user intelligence increases as everyone gives something to the website so that it could increase its content.

This creates a demand for faster rendering of data transfer server to client. Users come to a website to look for information while at the same time uploading information that could be used by other visitors. Without a faster data processor, users will end up frustrated with the information that they could get and upload online.

In this account, Ajax has proven its reliability to developers and users alike. The asynchronous behavior of the web development technique has proven its worth since users can upload and load information at the same time. Real time information regarding user’s data has created a brand new and better experience for its users.

Ajax seemed to be the next step for web development, even ushering a complete change of the layout of some websites so that they could be highly competitive. But Ajax is not that perfect. It’s quite imperfect that it could even hinder the development of Web 2.0. Instead of moving forward, Ajax could be the key of pushing back the internet to its roots.

One of the reasons why Ajax could destroy Web 2.0 is its security. Although thousands of articles, frameworks and tools applied so that Ajax will enhance its security, Cross Site Scripting or XSS is still a problem. As a highly interactive environment, users could come and go from the website extracting information while uploading information on their own. Hackers could easily inject a code that will send innocent users to a page which will extract their personal information.

Another confusion regarding Ajax for Web 2.0 is the use of tools for business settings. Developers could either go for Open Source or Licensed products and tools. If they go to Open Source, they can easily use online resources but the tools upgrade and services is not ensured. On the other hand, licensed products may answer upgrade and assistance concerns but speed of the development of these tools are comparably slower compared to open source wherein collective knowledge of developers around the world could enhance a single open source product.

But even when we are able answer upgrades and development, developers still have to face one insurmountable problem: the ability of users to keep up with the updates. Users are well aware of the capacity of Ajax in different facets of online technology but most users don’t even have the capacity of keeping up with the hardware requirements to run these online applications. Faster broadband connection coupled with gaming-like hardware capabilities have left users thinking twice of actually using the technology.