on Jan 2nd, 2007‘07 Technology Predictions - part 1
What better way to start the new year than my favorite past time, predictions. I shall start wih predictions from other people first and then move on to mine. I shall highlight the ones that I really liked.
The first set will basically be from Sitepoint a Microsoft loyal site. Read on, this is from the MS pavillion
-Â Windows Presentation Foundation WPF/E will give Flash/Flex a run for its money.
- Vista and Office 2007 will push new limits in desktop apps, UI and interface layers programming will experience dramatic change. Icons go out and long drop down menus are in.
- Longhorn Server with IIS7 will give start making Windows a much more viable shared-hosting option
Sounds good i must say.
Now for some predictions form Ajaxian, this is a riot, really
- Ajax beats AJAX in all but bad newspapers. 
- A large amount of apps have flash AND ajax, and users don’t know or care
- A widget api means components can run on many frameworks using one api.
- More desktop apps get written with javascript. Ajax wpf/e interop.
- Google Office. Finally!
- Mobile web development continues to suck.
- Javascript increasingly recognised as the world’s most popular “second language” and becomes popular as a lingua franca to describe generic programming concepts.
- IE7 causes more than a few headaches.
- Firebug is installed by pretty much any developer using Firefox.
- CSS is back, baby! Echoing the recent mass adoption of Javascript, developers who previously had a fleeting familiarity with CSS now become fluent practitioners.