“We’ve met with [the members of the initiative]. We’ve talked a little bit about things. It’s not as deep as it might be,” said Temkin of the initiative thus far. “We’ve got a parallel effort to this Eclipse tool (IDE4Laszlo) to create these different forms of JavaScript toolkit applications. It’s similar to what IBM announced, and perhaps these two will converge.”

But that remains to be seen, said Temkin. For now, he feels that the Open AJAX initiative is still in its larval stages. He also stated that the initiative is far from identifying standards.

“This Open AJAX initiative is not a standards committee; it’s really more about providing a collection of better tools and seeing what flies,” said Temkin. He went on to say that the project’s goal is “to make AJAX programming simpler and more mainstream.”