If you are one of those people trying more or less vainly to follow Ajax from a distance, you may or may not not be thrilled by Ben and Dion's (aka Dion and Ben's) summing up of last week's Ajax Summit. They write:
Well, the summit is over. Some people asked us going into the summit, "What exactly are you guys going to talk about? What is going to come out of the summit?" We couldn't really answer that question then, and, now that's over, we can't answer it now, either.
We definitely covered a lot of issues, both from the design and development disciplines. But the event's agenda was group-driven, and unfortunately, this group never reached anything close to concensus on what to talk about and what we wanted to achieve.
No dominant Ajax framework emerged, no plans for a unified Ajax framework were seriously entertained (whew!), no universal ajax architecture slides were produced (though we were threatened with one or two), and no "best practices" emerged.
There's also a link to Scott Andrew's more useful summing up, Ajaxed out.
