[Sigia-l] Re: DISCUSSION: AJAX (was reset button - aagghhh)

[Dave Heller]

<plug>
I recently self-published an article through my blog regarding issues
for Deigners relating to AJAX. I'm like Mitchell below, an AJAX
convert, but have learned that the issues are not so cut and dry, and
even though AJAX is not new it still has the feel of a new technology
in many cultural ways.

here's the link.
http://synapticburn.com/comments.php?id=97_0_1_0_C

-- dave


On 10/13/05, Gart, Mitchell <MGart at kronos.com> wrote:
> AJAX isn't really new but for the first time it's available across
> most browsers that most people are using.  So all of a sudden it has
> become practical to use it.
>
> I used to be a big advocate of Java clients, using WebStart or applets
> or stand-alone Java client applications.  I thought any application
> using HTML would be slow and clunky and not very rich, because of the
> need for complete page reloads, whereas a Java (or Flash) client could
> be much richer.
>
> But AJAX made me change my mind.  It's a very small change in technology,
> but in terms of what you can do with it, it's absolutely huge.  In my
> mind it changes everything.  Now we can make web apps that are pure
> HTML (plus javascript, including AJAX) on the client, but are really
> responsive and interactive and rich and fast.
>
> - Mitch Gart
>
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David Heller
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