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Welcome to the OpenAjax Runtime Wiki!
This wiki is used by the various members of the greater Ajax community to collaborate on a unified, prioritized list of feature requests from the Ajax community to the browser vendors.
This initiative is open to the general public (i.e., you don't have to join OpenAjax Alliance to contribute to this wiki). Despite being open to non-members, there will be strong participation from various members of OpenAjax Alliance, most particularly the alliance's Runtime Advocacy Task Force.
The 2010 Browser Wishlist
We are working towards launching, and will soon announce, the 2010 OpenAjax Browser Wishlist initiative. A preliminary feature list can be found at:
The above wiki page is the root page for the browser wishlist effort. If you want to review (and hopefully help develop) the feature wishlist, the above wiki page is the starting point.
Who can participate and how to join the effort
People from the community can participate in this effort, whether you are a member of OpenAjax Alliance or not. To gain write access to this wiki:
- Go to http://www.openajax.org/runtime/wiki/Special:Userlogin
- Click "Create an account"
- Fill in all of the fields and press "Create account"
- Check your mail for a confirmation email. Click on the link in the email to activate your account.
- Refresh any browser windows that are open to Runtime wiki pages
We believe that it is important for the industry to know who has expressed what opinions on various topics, so we request that your wiki login somehow convey your real identity clearly, such as making your wiki user name match your real name, as in "NapoleonBonaparte" (i.e., if your name matched that of the former emperor of France).
How to provide provide feedback
Here are a variety of the ways you can provide feedback on the initiative:
- There is a general feedback page, 2010 Wishlist Comments. To add your comments, simple edit the wiki markup on that page to include your comments.
- If you see a critical feature that needs to be on the wishlist, either say so on the 2010 Wishlist Comments wiki page or add it to the main feature list wiki page, 2010 Feature Requests Summary Page.
- If you think a feature should be removed from the list, please say so on the 2010 Wishlist Comments wiki page
- If you believe the description of a particular feature is inaccurate or incomplete, feel free to fix the write-ups on any of the features. You can find links to all of the features at 2010 Feature Requests Summary Page.
Why this effort was launched
The browser runtimes need to advance in key areas so that Ajax developers are able to create next-generation, innovative web applications. The members of OpenAjax Alliance concluded that the alliance should collect the key issues not only from the 100 or so OpenAjax Alliance members but also from leading members of the community who do have not joined OpenAjax Alliance. Then we should communicate the prioritized feature list to the browser vendors as well as the outside community at large. This will help educate the community in large, help browser vendors better plan for their product roadmap, and help OpenAjax members better use Ajax. In the end, creating a better Ajax eco-system.
How to join OpenAjax Alliance
While it is not a requirement to become a member of OpenAjax Alliance in order to participate in this particular effort, we do encourage the community to become OpenAjax members in order to stay informed about the many important initiatives happening at OpenAjax Alliance and to help contribute to some of those initiatives. There are no fees and the application process is simple. Here are some links:
- OpenAjax Alliance home page: http://www.openajax.org
- OpenAjax Alliance member wiki: http://www.openajax.org/member/wiki
- How to join: http://www.openajax.org/join.html
The 2008 Browser Wishlist (historical)
We have completed the voting phases for the initiative (see Timeline at the bottom of this page). In Phase II voting, participants provided 0-10 rankings for the proposed features.
The initiative's moderators have produced a summary report on the feature list and the voting:
The list of features that have been submitted (along with voting totals on the features that were part of Phase II Voting) can be found at:
The 37 "Phase II" features have been sorted in the order of which features received the most votes on the following wiki page:
A long page that captures all of the votes that were cast, with a few assorted supplemental comments, can be found at:
Please help us to continue to perfect the list and the write-ups for the various features. It is OK to add new features to the list if you see something important that is missing.
