alt Hacker News> promise of web 2.0 where "APIs will talk with APIs making everything super fast and automated"
Wait I thought web 2.0 was DHTML / client-side scripting and XmlHttpRequest?
> promise of web 2.0 where "APIs will talk with APIs making everything super fast and automated"
Wait I thought web 2.0 was DHTML / client-side scripting and XmlHttpRequest?
Web 2.0 was sites not having finished loading when you thought they had, buttons having a 1 in 20 chance of doing nothing when you click them, and the advent of "oops, something went wrong" being considered an acceptable error message.