Javascript - Still Object-Oriented

… is alive and well in Morphtron

In the past two years, many websites have been undergoing fundamental transformations in how they are viewed and interacted with. Driving these changes are technologies which have been around for almost thirty years and in their present form for nearly a decade. During that time I have been one of the pioneers of several of technologies which are making a come-back with AJAX and Web 2.0. Part 1 of this article takes a look at what AJAX really is and how it could have evolved differently. My objective with Part 1 is to show that given an understanding of the path we’ve traveled, we can take can make choices to move forward more efficiently. Part 2 will examine how AJAX is paving the way for the emergence of the agent and story-driven participatory environments I pioneered and what that will mean for the future of the web and the global economy. Continue Reading »