Browsers Struggle To Keep up with AJAX
Dietrich Kappe, a Pathfinder’s CTO published a posting in which he talks about problems of the browser execution of Ajax Applications he faced with. He points out that today's browsers have difficulty keeping up with the latest Web 2.0 applications.
"Ajax and the browsers it depends on are running out of time. If the
notion spreads that it isn’t reliable, it will be as dead as the Java
Applet, never to be heard from again," says Kappe.
In his posting Kappe talks about the many Browser crashes he had because of AJAX. He finds out that his colleagues and friends report similar problems with Safari/Mac, IE7/Vista, Firefox/Mac. The only one browser which seems "blissfully unaffected" is Opera.
Kappe suggests a relief for the problem in the form of bytecode interpreters and VMs for Safari and Mozilla. Still, the future of IE remains cloudy according to Kappe, though there is a plan to bring Tamarin to IE.
"But if the new Browser version don’t arrive quickly enough, or if they
don’t fully solve the problem of browsers crashing once an hour, then a
mass migration to Opera may be the best we can hope for. At worst,
content and application producers will opt for more stable non-Ajax
alternatives such as Flash or Silverlight", says Kappe.
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