Web 2.0 Submission

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Hi friends,

Please help me, I want to know, What is web 2.0? What is Web 2.0 Submission?
 

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"Web 2.0" doesn't have any real meaning. It was just a sort of handy label for the sort of look and feel that began to emerge in the mid-2000s when most browsers began to support background requests (XmlHTTPRequest), which was previously only an option in Internet Explorer using an ActiveX component, and at the same time web designers finally began moving away from table-based layouts and font tags to properly using CSS.

Most of what is referred to as "Web 2.0" had more to do with appearance than anything else: large sans-serif fonts, fewer graphics, rounded rectangles everywhere, a lot of gradients, shiny, glassy-looking buttons and more white space on the page than had been used before. That look is pretty dated now, although many of the UX (user experience) principles we worked out in that era are still in use. Pages are still a lot less cluttered than they were before "Web 2.0", but we've moved on to a world where there are a lot more textures on the one hand and a lot of flat (no artificial depth) designs on the other. Trends are trends, and none of them last.

The dynamic HTML part of the "Web 2.0" world is still going strong, though. We stay on a single web page longer now rather than continually reloading/refreshing a page. We are more likely to submit web forms via a background request than by changing the entire page when we submit a form. It's probably this AJAX (background) form submission that you've seen referred to as "Web 2.0 submission". An example is this forum—when you click the "Post Quick Reply" button, the form you use to create a reply in this thread is submitted in the background. You stay on the same page, and when the server has processed the form you submitted, only the part of the page that represents your posting is updated. With a normal HTTP form submission, you would load a whole new page.
 

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Now Web 2.0 is really starting to mean a combination of the technology (like AJAX) allowing the customers to actually interact with the information. Web 2.0 is starting to mean the situation where amateur writers and developers are able to create applications and Web sites that get more credibility than traditional news sources and software vendors.
 

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Now Web 2.0 is really starting to mean...

Actually, now Web 2.0 is starting to mean a buzzword indicating the speaker/writer hasn't got a clue what they're talking about. It's old, and it was always a bit of an amorphous concept. Anyone still using the term seriously is either a tech historian (using it more-or-less correctly) or a hopelessly out-of-date "idea man" -- the kind of "entrepreneur" who has billion-dollar ideas he has no way to implement several times a day, and expects online contractors on freelance sites (for "contractor", read "sucker") to build a combination of Amazon, Facebook and Twitter in a week for $150 to deploy on $3.95/month shared hosting.

It connoted "new and exciting" in the mid-to-late "aughts", and was pretty much gone even from the most rabidly overenthusiastic marketing-speak by the year 2010. If you want the modern equivalent, it would be HTML5 (all one word), indicating all of the upcoming HTML standards (some of which actually are going to be codified in the W3C's HTML 5 document definition, but it is closer in reality to the "living standard" espoused by WHATWG), CSS 3 (which is now a group of modules rather than a single coherent standards document) and proprietary extensions to CSS (-ms-, -moz-, -webkit-), along with new JavaScript bindings. The trend is still towards more single-page activity. But "Web 2.0" is, like, so-o-o-o three versions ago.
 
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