Crisis Averted!

Lace 0.2 is a ground-up rewrite of Lace based on my experience developing 0.1.x as well as information from the many Ajax and remote scripting websites, articles, discussions, examples, best practices and applications that have come to my attention since creating Lace.

As well as a ground-up rewrite, Lace's purpose is no longer to be a universal PHP/JavaScript framework. After releasing Lace 0.1.0 only a few weeks ago, I've realized there are a number of existing projects in this space: SAJAX, JPSpan, Dojo, SACK; other related projects: JavaScript O Lait, Sarissa, Prototype, JSON, etc., in addition to numerous Ajax blogs.

With this new information, I've decided that rather than reinventing the wheel (and likely ending up in way over my head), development of Lace 0.2 will take advantage of the wealth of existing work to build upon the chat/communications application that started it all. The core framework of Lace 0.2 will still be unique, modular and hopefully reusable, but it will be much simpler than originally planned and not meant to be used as a universal toolkit.

As a chat/communications application, Lace will still not be anything new. But it will be useful to me and my friends and colleagues and hopefully to a few of you as well.