Is the web changing?

Past few months have seen a hughe influx of applications on the internet that have being developed using the AJAX technology to increases the response time. There are many such applications claiming to change the way the web works. I happen to beta test one such technology but have been advised against discussing the details, so we won’t discuss it for now

Moving on, I came across Start.com project by Microsoft using excessive AJAX and DOM. I was very curious to check the source code, and to my surprise, found many linked JavaScript files and hardly any (X)HTML tags!!

The questions popping up in my mind are:
Are we depending heavily on JavaScript, DOM and DHTML?
What will happen to Web Standards?

I know I am talking about the Web Applications here and not Websites. But don’t you feel the developers across will start aping the technology come up with some weird scripts claiming to enhance the user experience on the internet?

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