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Web 2.0, which "happened" in late 2004 was mostly about user participation a la Wikipedia, Wordpress, etc. It was about tagging things a la del.icio.us. Some Ja

Web 2.0, which "happened" in late 2004 was mostly about user participation a la Wikipedia, Wordpress, etc. It was about tagging things a la del.icio.us. Some JavaScript was used to do crazy things like show full-size images from clicking a thumbnail or making wysiwyg editors. But these thick-client "Single Page Apps" people build today didn't really take off until Backbone.js became popular in ~2010. Re: Gmail. It won, not because of its slick JavaScript features (really, there weren't many when it came out in 2004). It won because of the impressive (at the time) storage space they gave you.

betageek 9y ago
Although the Wikipedia page may say Web 2.0 was about user generated content and tagging, from a web dev point of view it was about building rich interfaces and using XHR to update content without a full page refresh. Full size images had nothing to do with it. My point is that JavaScript has it place in modern web dev, and saying we should just get rid of it is ridiculous, and not what this article says at all. Gmail won for many reasons, but usability was a big part of it, and it wouldn't be possible to even auto-complete an email address without JavaScript