Life After Ajax?

[prabhu]

The problem, in a word, is contracts. In a web application, which parts are guaranteed not to change? Which parts are fair game? What will remain backward compatible, and what will be forward compatible? When things do change, what kind of advance notification process is in place? All of these (and more) are thorny questions that need to be dealt with. Users of Greasemonkey, a Firefox plugin that allows script-driven customization of individual pages, were also seen complaining recently, as that same round of changes to GMail altered certain internals that broke their customizations. more...