Comments on: AJAX is a cleaning product http://www.archgrove.co.uk/weblog/2005/04/29/ajax-is-a-cleaning-product Implicit Definition Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:52:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kyle Stemen http://www.archgrove.co.uk/weblog/2005/04/29/ajax-is-a-cleaning-product/comment-page-1#comment-221 Kyle Stemen Wed, 08 Jun 2005 19:53:30 +0000 http://www.archgrove.co.uk/weblog/2005/04/29/ajax-is-a-cleaning-product#comment-221 I'd like to see more people start cleaning up the terminology. What tends to happen is that a researcher makes up some terminology that's not widely understood and just makes sence in a niche. When someone makes a working app, usually they clean things up a bit (not always). When marketing takes over they'll do a combination of fixing up terminology and making buzzwords. It's not until the idea's been taught a lot and published in a few books that the terminology really gets cleaned up. We could do our part by offering new sets of terminology that make more sense. Ideally their meaning would be fairly intuitive so when you used them people that use the old terms would know what you're talking about. If we're lucky, they might catch on. I’d like to see more people start cleaning up the terminology. What tends to happen is that a researcher makes up some terminology that’s not widely understood and just makes sence in a niche. When someone makes a working app, usually they clean things up a bit (not always). When marketing takes over they’ll do a combination of fixing up terminology and making buzzwords. It’s not until the idea’s been taught a lot and published in a few books that the terminology really gets cleaned up.

We could do our part by offering new sets of terminology that make more sense. Ideally their meaning would be fairly intuitive so when you used them people that use the old terms would know what you’re talking about. If we’re lucky, they might catch on.

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