Ajit talks about Ajax and the Three Musketeers

March 20th, 2007

Yesterday, I spoke at Ajaxworld in New York on Deploying Web-Based Applications to Mobile Devices Using AJAX Techniques.
This is my third Ajax world (after New York and Santa Clara last year) and I am pleasantly surprised as to how many people turned up this year for my talk!
Ajax on Mobile devices is a subsidiary topic from the main conference (i.e. Rich Internet Applications on the Web) ? and hence to see so many people attending what was in effect, the last session for the day, is great. In fact the room was full ? and there were some people outside the Hudson Suite ? where I spoke.
I can think of three reasons for this uptake:
a) RIA (Rich Internet Applications) is becoming mainstream ? be they Ajax or Flex. For instance, for the first time, Oracle was an attendee and also a sponsor
b) Mobile Ajax is unexpectedly in the news thanks to iPhone and Mobile Widgets(The Mobile Widgets I predicted more than a year ago, iPhone was unexpected to all and will be significant for Mobile Ajax as I spoke yesterday ? especially if Dashboard widgets make it to the iPhone)
c) And finally, there is widespread support from almost all browser vendors. Here in Europe, we focus on Nokia and Opera ? but there were a number of questions about Windows Mobile ? something I need to clearly brush up on a bit more!

And the Three Musketeers? Have a read here

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