[Squid_Tamer]

Maybe I'm noticing a trend that doesn't exist, but it seems to me that the web industry is slowly realizing how much the original designers of the web got right.

RESTFUL services bring back the focus on URLs and HTTP methods. For a while there was a craze of embedding content in awful Flash and Java applets, but that died out because of convenience, better browsers, and SEO. I wonder if the future of the web is going to look a lot more like its history than we thought.

[salehhamadeh]

That's a good point. In my opinion, HTTP's success is due to its platform-independent nature and its simple yet effective text-based communication protocol. Standardized solutions are the way to go.

Flash died because it was private and for Adobe. Java will not remain a strong web language as long as it is for Oracle.

I predict a great future for HTML5 WebSockets, as well as other open-source API's and protocols.