Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/07/ajax_alliance_interopfest/
Apathy comes easy to OpenAjax Alliance
Struggles on AJAX interop project
Posted in Developer, 7th October 2008 19:16 GMT
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The OpenAjax Alliance [1] is once again finding it tough to enlist support for its projects, despite representing some of the biggest players - with the most resources - in software biz and on online.
The 2008 Open Ajax Alliance InteropFest a project set up in June to promote compatibility demonstrations for AJAX tools, libraries, and "mashup" editors has so far failed to attract participants.
The project wiki [2], which has not been updated since late August, contains a results table for participants to enter details of their projects.
Only a couple of weeks before the deadline, the table remains almost empty apart from an entry relating to a reference implementation of the OpenAjax mashup editor.
The OpenAjax Alliance hoped to have at least some results in time for the start of AjaxWorld [3] and OpenAjax Allience meeting later this month, in San Jose, California. The results are disappointing - to say the least - considering the group's members' list [4] spans Adobe Systems, IBM, Mozilla Corporation, Oracle, and Google among others.
Another page in the wiki lists [5] the tasks that form part of the project and only two minor ones relating to the project admin have been "closed." A further five tasks remain "open."
This summer the Alliance experienced a similar wave of apathy when it received a poor response [6] to a call for votes on AJAX features developers would most like to see organizations such as Microsoft, Mozilla, and Google add to their browser software.
A late surge in voting shortly before the deadline managed to save the Alliance's face - but still only represented a small proportion of developers involved in web development and those actually involved with the Alliance. ®