Now that the news has hit the blogosphere, I'm seeing lots of questions out there about the jQuery/MSFT announcement.
I believe that the AJAX/DHTML model is broken...at least for widespread adoption. Here I explain why lack of standards and huge fragmentation is killing widespread adoption of browser based rich UIs.
With the latest news in browsers (Google Chrome) and the development in Javascript Engines with V8 and TraceMonkey - is Javascript becoming a Ruby killer?