Building Richly Interactive Web Apps with Ajax

FalsePositives writes "Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications (from Adaptive Path and via Jeffery Veen) introduces their experiences with what they are calling 'Ajax' as in 'Asynchronous JavaScript + XML' aka the XmlHttpRequest Object. It is used by Google (Google Maps, Google Suggest, Gmail), in Amazon's A9, and a few others (like the map of Switzerland spotted by Simon Willison). ... Is this 'The rise of the Weblication'?"

Comments

Weblication?

[Neil Blender]

No more cutesy terms, please.

Re:Weblication?

[Quixote]

You misunderestimate their utility...

Re:Weblication?

[PopeAlien]

.. aw c'mon. you're just jealenvious that you didnt inventrify such a fabutabulous e-term.

right?

think of the infotainment value!

Re:Weblication?

[Anonymous Coward]

You're right. Once people start usaging a word, it becomes standardified. In fact, I'm feeling a bit creatific now-wise, and I'd like to objection at all the granitypes who don't grok "I fornet a dozen emails about verbification". Don't you enpensate it? Can't you disconstruct the affixatives? Wouldn't you rather stragmatize?

- Tom Phoenix

Re:Weblication?

[Anonymous Coward]

iAgree.

Re:Weblication?

[sqlgeek]

Is that you President Bush?

Re:Weblication?

[xmedar]

I guess the marketroids are engaged in a spot of Websterbation...

Compatibility?

[nizo]

Is Ajax compatible with the Odysseus web security tool or will it just cause Ajax to die a horrible death?

Re:Compatibility?

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

It probably has some achilles heel that allows trojan to be installed. I wouldn't be suprised if this happens before the vendor ships 1000 units.

Greeaaaat

[Nathonix]

Even more stuff to learn. As if high school wasnt mind numbing enough.

Wow

[aristus]

an "oldskool" web developer grumbling about newskool kids who don't know what it was like back in the Real Days. Why, all we had were radio buttons! And they could only tune in AM! And we liked it that way!

Re:Wow

[theshowmecanuck]

Old Developer: ...and we could only use ones and zero's!
Dilbert: You had ones? We had to use lower case L's.

Caution

[Anonymous Coward]

Ajax is not meant to be used on windows.

yeah, but what about...

[lottameez]

Wonkavision? No, not television....Wonkavision.
Weblication? No, not web applications... Weblications.

could this be the death of flash?

[huphtur]

one can only hope...

Re:Java app

[redheaded_stepchild]

I've got it!

Flash + Java = Flava!

And we can get Flava Flav to promote it!

YES! Bow before the mighty marketing droid!

That dull roar that you hear...

[nobodyman]

...is the sound of thousands of recruiters feverishly updating their Monster.com job postings:

5+ Years Ajax Development REQUIRED

Now my resume is going to spill over to three pages, unless I remove "15 years LAMP development". Damn.

Re:Is this the rise of

[sfjoe]

I think what we need is an RFC on buzzwords to introduce some standards to the whole marketing process. Of course, then the new hyp could be labeled as buzzword-compliant.

Because....

[Run4yourlives]

we're coders, not artists. (Flex or no Flex)

And Flash is expensive to buy, IDE wise.

HTML, Javascript and XML can all be developed on whatever text editor you like.

I can see it now....

[50000BTU_barbecue]

On Monster.com or what-have-you...

Web developper needed, must have 5 years experience with AJAX

I love HR departments...

Re:JavaScript ? I'm out.

[cabra771]

Dude. Seriously. It's 2005. Time to put down the Netscape 4.7 and walk away.

Re:Also Check out Bits of News

[jo42]

> XML itself it realy good if you use it the right way

You mean not as a marketing compliant TLA buzzword, eh?

Amazing what you can do with a text file, isn't it?

Re:Flash for Rich Web Applications

[Anonymous Coward]

And it locks out people with disabilities. No thanks.

Oh and by the way, may I wipe my ass with that paper of yours? Thanks in advance.

Re:JavaScript ? I'm out.

[Cap'n Steve]

"Thanks anyway. You kids have fun. My browser will ignore your site(s) until I'm literally forced to use them."

I guess you won't be responding again, once I point out that there are three sections of Javascript in this very page.

Re:bad photos

[bill_mcgonigle]

They obviously cut the baldness of his head off for a reason, and half the photo is of his black on black outfit.

So you noticed how they cropped the frame too close? That's cool. So is black on black. This guy is cool. That's the point.

If he had a darker complexion, dreds, and thick black-frame glasses he'd be even cooler. Especially if he was using a Powerbook in a park. But there's only so much you can do with a bald white guy.