Great Tim Bray interview on the Future of the Web

Tim Bray, director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems, discusses current web trends. I actually like his cautious view of RIAs (although it conflicts with Sun’s current JavaFX direction).  Some highlights of the interview:

WS* is already legacy.
WS* will be more and more replaced with RESTful services
RIAs are overrated, user like simple interfaces (I totally agree [...]

Smush.it! Use it!

I am kind of a performance geek, I like it lean and fast. Although I have to admit that in many cases optimization is not useful or not relevant (I learned a couple of lessons in this area), it is always interesting. As my focus more and more shifts to Web development, I am constantly [...]