It was really a big year of the web, from my point of view we as web standards geeks and advocates have come closer to 2 of our objectives, number one objective is promoting web standards and I see more and more designers, developers & organizations started to understand the value of meeting the standards, and one of the most obvious signs of that is the growth of FireFox market share, and one of the biggest moves to web standards this year is that Microsoft finally started to listen and will release IE7 that will support web standards way better than IE6, if we will thank one person for promoting standards this year she will be definitely Molly E. Holzschlag for her efforts in leading the WaSP, her efforts with Microsoft, and a lot more that it needs a separate post alone. Thanks Molly
The second objective in my opinion is the transition of desktop apps to web apps, which has been done and named Web 2.0, thanks to all the technologies that make it possible starting from Ruby on Rails to AJAX and the fresh minds that implemented those technologies in an usable apps to fill some of the web community needs like project management, bookmarking, maps and a lot of extremely useful ideas, and if we have to thank one company for making it possible and implement it in a perfect way, it'll be 37 Signals for there great framework Ruby on Rails, and there great apps Basecamp & Backpack, I also learned a lot from their great blog Signal vs. Noise.
To follow Andy Clark and Molly's lead I would like to tell my Pick Of The Pack for 2005.
December 29, 2005, 4:02 AM | Web News