Today was day 1 of The Rich Web Experience conference. My head is still spinning a bit. Its surreal to see and meet the people I feel like I’ve known for so long from having read their work and their blogs for so many years now.
For me, the day can be summed up as: Rich Web is here, now we just need to make it work. Sure, we’ve put together some nice libraries and built and learned new, rich paradigms and even have them in production web applications. But its HARD, fragile, slow, insecure, hard to test, and ultimately needs to change. Thats not to say we’re going down the wrong path…we’re trying to find the right one. There is some really cool work going on in the space, and we are evolving and improving the human/computer interaction every day. That evolution will come along for the ride and eventually have a place in the future of Rich Web(s).
