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The popularity of web 2.0 in the consumer marketplace will wane and die according to a UK web testing firm.

Concerns about placing online advertisements alongside “questionable content” was a primary reason for vendors to stop using the format, stated the research firm SciVisum.

“Retailers will focus on eliminating the background problems that plague their websites and affect sales,” said Deri Jones, chief executive of SciVisum.

Researchers found that a high number of users encountered problems while surfing the net, leading to a fall in user confidence levels.

Some one in three online users were found to result in more than three per cent error rates, with more than ten per cent of users having extreme inconsistencies in delivery speed.

In order for businesses to keep demand up for this type of platform, researchers concluded that firms will be forced to form stricter e-commerce operations in order to see profits.

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Last week Ajaxian and Burton Group’s Richard Monson-Haefel conducted a survey amongst Ajax developers. It showed that more and more developers are using Ajax frameworks instead of hand-coding Ajax. Although the total number of frameworks has increased, there is a limited number of frameworks that is really popular.

What is astonishing is the nearly complete lack of commercial Ajax frameworks. Backbase has had a lot of success making a comeback after loosing some market share in 2006, but other commercial Ajax frameworks have not been so lucky.

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The OpenAjax Hub is a set of standard JavaScript functionality that ensures that multiple Ajax libraries can be used within the same web page. This week the final 1.0 specification was approved by the OpenAjax members. This is the first specification to come out of The OpenAjax Alliance, which is a major milestone towards standardization of Ajax.

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As an alternative for using the FusionCharts Flash-based charts you can now also use the Google Chart API to generate image-based charts. You just construct a URL with the chart data and configuration encoded in the URL variables and you’re done. Jon Winstanley created a wizard to quickly generate these URL, which is a real time-saver. The only limitation is the number of queries, which is limited to 50,000 a day.

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While writing a script to list the file in a specified folder on the server I wanted to remove file extension from the file name before I link it. Here is the php code that will remove the file extension.

< ? php
if(!function_exists("RemoveExtension"))
{
function RemoveExtension($strName)
{
$ext = strrchr($strName, '.');
if($ext !== false) {
$strName = substr($strName, 0, -strlen($ext));
}
return $strName;
}
}
? >

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