The W3 consortium, the center of web standards, begins to evaluate the AJAX hype, hmmm…
The main activities are embedded into the WEB API activity, where the XMLHttpRequest Object is the starting point of research. In fact you could follow the acual status of the draft at http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest/
This document is a simple restatement of the common properties of all the implementations
of this principal javascript object for AJAX. Perhaps not new but worth to read, because at the end (which is typically defined by the publication of a W3 recommendation) the XMLHttpRequest is a W3 Standard, Such standards always had and have string influence on further developments.
Another small activity it the aval project, a receipt to embed XML and CSS validation services into the validated page itself. Perhaps a nice POC (proof of concept) for the guys at W3C itself…
A nice introduction of the W3C point of view (?!?) is the talk Web of applications presented by Dave Raggett
at Google, Mountain View, 1st February 2006. definitly worth to read (and it is nicely compiled using the slidy slide generator tool). Check it out !
Oh, forgot to mention another AJAX at w3.org. It is the Tabulator, a semantic web browser, loading and browsing RDF informations. It was built by Tim Berner Lee, the inventor of HTML and web browser, one of the most influental person in the web itself This fact alone makes it worth to look at this prototype…. Wonder if somebody is going to extend it.
Tim Berner Lee also wrote a short post on Tabluator which explains the context.
