Published on 2007-03-04 18:56:22
Today Yahoo is developing their own YUI and using it extensively in new services such as: Pipes, Suggestion Board, Yahoo Food, ... etc. On the other side Microsoft has its AJAX ASP.NET which is used by many websites such PageFlakes, Shelfari, myPhanfare, TitleZ ... It is still too early to talk about Adobe's Apollo, since it is still before it's public release, but we'll be back on that. Suffice to say that Adobe does not use Flex, Apollo's online sibling, which is already in version 2, to create its own web site.
Joe Stagner, Program Manager - Dev Tools & Platforms at Microsoft told us "The ASP.NET Extensions for Ajax are used on www.ASP.net and the core components are used on Live.com, though the components in the live.com site are highly customized. He further added, "The AJAX extensions are also starting to appear on other MS Web properties".
What is missing here is GWT! What's surprising is that Google is not using GWT for its critical online service, which almost all of them are AJAX-based or have AJAX veneer: GMail, GMaps, GReader, GDocs, GSpreadsheet, GAJAX-Search, GFinance, GHomePage, ... none of them use GWT! The question is, why did Google develop GWT if it cannot use it? And by the way who is using GWT ?
A Google spokesperson told us "Google does use the Google Web Toolkit to help build certain products, including Google Checkout and Google Base".Read More
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