Web 2.0 and Javascript

Recently, lots of people have been asking me ‘why doesn’t <insert web 2.0 related issues> work on my home machine?. They have tried everything, from crying at their keyboard to punching their monitors until they ended up in their local hospital.

The reason is actually pretty simple, Javascript, a very important part of Web 2.0 has been disabled on their browser.

In the long history of the Internet, Javascript was at one point considered the ‘evil’ code. Hackers would create web pages with Javascript codes to steal information from the users’ browser, without the user knowing. One type of sites that love to use this technique are the X-rated Pornography sites or other ‘undernet’ sites.

However with famous companies like Facebook or Google siding with Javascript, AJAX is born. This AJAX should not be mixed with Ajax the city, it is the backbone to our ever so funny Web 2.0. To identify whether your browser is Web2.0 ready, simply go to sites like www.facebook.com and see if you can move your profile’s little windows around. If you can then you are Web2.0 ready, else continue reading to enable Javascript on your Browser Read more…