Adam Bosworth on Ajax

Adam Bosworth, who is regarded as the pioneer of DHTML, commented on Ajax recently. He talked about the reasons why it didn't fly in 1997 or even in 1999. More interesting is what he quotes from his son's post on pitfalls of Ajax and what he builds on top of it. We have actually thought about some of these issues and already have or plan to have the solutions:

1. Bookmarks broken. Although not yet in Cornerstone, if you look at this site (still in testing) I did, you will notice the URL in the address bar is updated every time the page is partially updated. If you bookmark it, next time you can return to exactly here.
2. Back button broken. Well you just need to build on top of above and save the URLs into history and then back button will work again.
3. Offline operation broken. We have ideas at length for this.

There are many other issues we are not addressing yet. However this is what's so exciting about this (old) new model: it is unchartered water and open play field!