Internet2 by examples: ajaxWrite and Writely!
I heard a lot of things about Internet2, even if there is not a clear definition for it and even if the name is usually misused. But The next step of the World Wide Web will not be such a revolution on what I can see now, because there will not be a big technological gap between the actual website and the tomorrow’s ones.
If you are expecting something like Matrix, well for now you will have to wait a little bit more, but for those who never heard about the next step for internet, or for those who knows a lot of things, but have missed this new little piece of thing, I’d like you to take a look at a good piece of future, where Office will not be an application on your computer any longer.
Yes, you have heard well, no more 700 MB of installer, no more money for installing it. To use a good word processor (for now, but the other office applications have been already planned for the future) you can easily take a look on Writely and ajaxWrite. Take a look at what you can do directly on your web browser, and you should get shocked by the advancement of the simple HTML (that HTML is not any longer…)
I have tried both the application, written with the ajax technology, and I have to say that I didn’t find too many difficulties in adapting myself to the way of working of those two applications. ajaxWrite is available only for Firefox users (version 1.5), but this is not such a bad limitation, under Windows you can also download a copy of this browser without an installer, just a portable firefox that you can set up simply copying a folder and remove deleting it!
Returning to the Internet2 and the future of the world wide web, you can clearly see how much the net is going to evolve, even if slowly and without big technology jumps. This is an example, but finally ajax has started to evolve those static HTML pages, giving them a new dynamism.
Is the future of the pc inside the Net?
This is a hard question to answer to, because too many economical games are actually held by multinationals, but I think that those applications are a step forward in ths direction!
