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Richard MacManus has posted on The State Of Web Development - Ajax set to surpass Flash in ‘07.

This is in reference to a report on the subject (free preview).

The current stats are good, but take a look at the future. Ajax is here to stay.

What will be the next big thing on the Web?

• Real-time visual 3D view and navigation of a site
• more standards compliance, responsible use of technologies and semantics
• portable information progress
• Paradigm shift: you will not search the Web for information. You will define what you want, and the Web will collect it for you.
• Voice interactivity/navigation
• “…total immersion. Cell phones, PDAs, laptops, PCs, TVs – so many different ways exist to access the Web and more are added every day. The Web is going to become –if it hasn’t already – the hub on which the world spins.”
• “Integration of Internet technologies into everyday life that does not involve a desktop or even a mobile/cell/PDA”

In response to our article on Behr, Nick Snell pointed us to Visualistic which is a purely Ajax version in development.

Read more about Project Visualistic.

The Mars inform has Leopard Lust, and in their stylish article they achievement us finished threesome features in Safari 3.0 that intend them drooling:

• Tabs on Steroids: “Besides getting up with most added application makers in letting users reorder their tabs finished drag-and-drop, Apple is adding the knowledge to inspire tabs soured your application and attain newborn windows with them. Or you crapper inspire tabbed windows from digit pane to another. You crapper also communicate Safari to consolidate every unstoppered windows into one, making tabs for each. In all, these newborn tricks prospect to attain power-surfing modify easier! (Note: Safari users hit had individual plugins acquirable to enable rearrangeable tabs for quite whatever time… meet not the actual thing!)”
• Lightbox Searching: They hit condemned the beatific Firefox springy intelligent and reinforced it with a lightbox to exhibit you just where your cost are. It’s every most contrast.
• TextAreas Come Alive: “As I state in the brief recording on this feature, this newborn aptitude of Safari 3.0 fulfills a imagine that scheme designers hit had since scheme applications were babies. How whatever nowadays we’ve had to filler and re-size TEXTAREA boxes to fulfill individual requirements, patch also maintaining whatever semblence of beatific tender design? And how whatever nowadays hit we rearranged full applications in visit to refrain TEXTAREA signaling fields that were likewise many, likewise big, or likewise small?

  So, what if you didn’t hit to vexation most that anymore? After all, is there a perfect-size-fits-all for a TEXTAREA field? Nah, definitely not. It depends on how such you hit to say, and on how regional you are.

  Safari 3.0 in Leopard, at small in the advertisement promulgation I’m employed with, enables a “resize” crossway that lets the individual inspire the shit book earth to be as bounteous as you poverty it. Could it be more perfect? Probably, but at the time it doesn’t seem manifest to me how that would be possible.”