Julien Lecomte

Julien Lecomte, who currently works on Yahoo!'s DHTML Evangelist team, is a member of the distinguished Speaker Faculty at the upcoming AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 East, to be held in New York City (March 18-20, 2008), where his session will be entitled "High Performance AJAX Applications." According to my Yahoo! co-worker Douglas Crockford, Mashups are the most interesting advancement in software development in decades. They are also unsafe in the current generation of browsers. Lately, Douglas has been spending some time convincing the main browser vendors that mashups need to be made safe, wrote a proposal, and even mentioned Google Gears as a potential solution to the problem. While fixing the browser is the right thing to do, web developers are confronted with this problem today, and cannot afford to wait 5 years for a definitive solution. Existing solution... (more)

Is This the Birth of Web 3.0?

Julien Lecomte's Blog Is Web 3.0 yet another buzz word, or is it a real turnaround in our industry? Web 1.0 was the good old web of the 1990s. In those times, all client-side changes were the result of a server round-trip. The Internet was ramping up in popularity. Web 2.0 has been a little more than just a technological evolution. The staple of Web 2.0 has been the emergence of social media (Internet users creating most of the content), powered by mature technologies (DHTML, Ajax) on somewhat stable web browsers. Web 3.0 is not a revolution either. It is yet another technological... (more)