“Big complex data models look really imposing and impressive, but at the end of the day, XForms got their start largely because the existing HTML forms just weren’t expressive enough. Consider some of the more vexing problems associated with typical web forms. Suppose that you wished to…” (Kurt Cagle – O’Reilly XML Blog)

“You can’t just ask Dreamweaver for the code – it’s currently a hand coding exercise.” (John Whalen – HFI)

The CD Version of the Fourteenth International World Wide Web Conference held at Makuhari Messe on May 10-14, 2005, in Chiba, Japan (WWW2005) – courtesy of stevenpemberton

“The development of Web technology has been an exciting ride, a series of socially motivated technical innovations some languishing, others catching on in a viral way. As each development has suggested many new ones, and much of the original vision is still unfulfilled, there is a lot to do. This talk will discuss new challenges and hopes for weblike systems on the net.” (Tim Berners-Lee – Oxford Internet Institute Webcasts) – courtesy of boingboing

“It sometimes seems like widely popular web-standards innovation halted around 2000, and the last few years have been a period of very slow catch-up. Various visions of a new Web, a better Web, have come and gone, leaving behind useful parts but not yet transforming the Web. Are we on the edge of the next big thing? It may make sense to look at the last few big things, comparing their visions with what’s happening today.” (Simon St. Laurent – XML.com) – courtesy of thinkingandmaking

“The trick… is to make sure that each limited mechanical part of the Web, each application, is within itself composed of simple parts that will never get too powerful.” – says Tim Berners-Lee (Tantek Çelik – Microformats)

“In December 2005, we did an analysis of a sample of slightly over a billion documents, extracting information about popular class names, elements, attributes, and related metadata. (…) You will need a browser with SVG and CSS support to view the result graphs correctly. We recommend Firefox 1.5.” (Google Code) – courtesy of justaddwater

“(…) validating your XHTML files, migrating from XHTML to XML, possible XML standards, creating your own standard, validating your XML files, and creating an XML to HTML transform.” (Char James-Tanny – WritersUA)

“In this two-part series, Edd Dumbill examines the various ways forward for HTML that Web authors, browser developers, and standards bodies propose. This series covers the incremental approach embodied by the WHATWG specifications and the radical cleanup of XHTML proposed by the W3C. Additionally, the author gives an overview of the W3C’s new Rich Client Activity. Here in Part 1, Edd focuses primarily on two specifications being developed by WHATWG: Web Applications 1.0 (HTML5) and Web Forms 2.0.” (Edd Dumbill – IBM)

“Recently, there has been a lot of talk about Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), how they work, and how to choose the appropriate RIA technology. Unfortunately, so far, we’ve had few discussions about the value of RIAs to users and how RIA technologies let us create better, more usable Web applications.” (David Heller – UXmatters)

“With the recent rise in popularity of web technologies such as Flash and AJAX, it has become possible to create richer user experiences on the web. Even though these technologies are not actually new, we are now seeing their widespread adoption. Within the last six months, we have seen the christening of the term ‘AJAX’ and its broad acceptance. Most major websites are adding rich interaction to their existing features” (Bill Scott – Boxes and Arrows)

“This is the first part of a two-part article describing a detailed methodology for migrating HTML files to the structure and flexibility of XHTML and/or XML. By using XHTML to add structure and separate content from presentation, you’ll be better positioned for a move to XML. Even if you never move to XML, your XHTML files will be easier to create and maintain, and will be more accessible.” – (Char James-Tanny – WinWriterUA)

“Thanks to the generous permission of the speakers, you can listen to all these sessions from WE05.” (Web Essentials 2005) – courtesy of webgraphics

“(…) the unexplored ways we can evolve Web conventions without the constraints of the old hypertext interaction model, are why the recent Ajax explosion signals a new chapter in the history of Web design.” (Jesse James Garrett – OK/Cancel)

“In the past few years, developers could choose between two approaches when building a web application. The first approach was to create a screen-based system with very rich interactions using a sophisticated, powerful technology such as Java or Flash. The alternative approach was to create a page-based system using easier-to-learn core web standards like XHTML and CSS whose more basic capabilities force less-rich interactions. A new technological approach, dubbed Ajax, might just be the right mix between the two.” (Joshua Porter – UI 10 Conference)

“As AJAX applications become more widespread and users begin to expect more of the rich interactions they enable, some of the over-communicating happening today may not be necessary. Until then, however, it’s necessary to consider the expectations users have and meet them accordingly.” (Luke Wroblewski – Functioning Form)

“Ajax breaks the interaction model of the Web. It faces the unique user interface problem of blending the expectations users have of a website with the behavior of a desktop application. This is the consequence of giving the user desktop app powers within their trusty browser.” – (Quinn Norton – O’Reilly Network)

“State requires a lot of thought and consideration. If we are going to build the web for amateurization or personal information architectures that ease how people build and structure their use of the web, we must provide state.” (Thomas VanderWal)

“Web Application Solutions is a guide that helps designers, product managers, and business owners evaluate some of the most popular Web application presentation layer solutions available today. We compare each solution through consistent criteria (deployment & reach, user interactions, processing, interface components and customization, back-end integration, future proofing, staffing and cost, unique features) and provide an overview, set of examples, and references for each.” (Luke Wroblewski – Functioning Form)

“Google Suggest and Google Maps are two examples of a new approach to web applications that we call Ajax. The name is shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML, and it represents a fundamental shift in what’s possible on the Web. (…) The biggest challenges in creating Ajax applications are not technical. The core Ajax technologies are mature, stable, and well understood. Instead, the challenges are for the designers of these applications: to forget what we think we know about the limitations of the Web, and begin to imagine a wider, richer range of possibilities.” (Jesse James Garrett – Adaptive Path)