Web base – Web 2.0
Tech October 12th, 2005Last 2 days mariah ask "what it means ‘web base’?" at one of my previous post. Web base means, you can perform some specific task by using Web Browser (IE, Firefox, Opera or etc). In other words, you do not need to download any setup files, do not need to run the setup.exe, everything you need is just a browser.
Many IT giant has started to turn their standalone application to web base application according to Web 2.0 Specification. You may ask me What is Web 2.0? I’m also not really sure about this but i know it’s a big thing hitting the software industry. Ok here is the simple explanation. According to a expert Richard MacManus from Zdnet:-
Web 2.0 = using web as a platform
Web 2.0 = the underlying philosophy of relinquishing control
Web 2.0 = glocalization ("making global information available to local social
contexts and giving people the flexibility to find, organize, share and
create information in a locally meaningful fashion that is globally
accessible")
Web 2.0 = an attitude not a technology
Web 2.0 = when data, interface and metadata no longer need to go hand in hand
Web 2.0 = action-at-a-distance interactions and ad hoc integration
Web 2.0 = power and control via APIs
Web 2.0 = giving up control and setting the data free
October 12th, 2005 at 4:34 am
hmmm our company app already changed to webbase since 2 years back.
but still depend a lot on the bandwidth, if dial up, a lot of webbase app will NOT work well…
still trying to find out more on web2.0…
October 12th, 2005 at 4:41 am
Actually, Web2.0 is not only everything webbased. Web-based software etc.. they’re all the nicer parts of Web2.0, the appealing parts.
Stuff like Konfabulator widgets, they’re also part of Web2.0
October 12th, 2005 at 7:46 am
web 2.0 is nothing. it’s just a hype. a marketing scheme.
October 12th, 2005 at 8:26 am
leecs: ya web base application tend to use a lot of bandwidth. web 2.0 try to minimize the bandwidth problem using AJAX. they try to do everything in one page without refreshing the page.
Hisyam: ya can be say so. web 2.0 rely heavily on javascript and DOM which already exist long time ago. by introducing web 2.0, they need to ensure the framework is stable n robust enought to be live on production. this is the most difficult part where different browser tend to have different behaviour towards javascript.