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Building Richly Interactive Web Apps with Ajax

Posted by timothy on from the you-were-there dept.

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'?"

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  1. Weblication? by Neil+Blender · · Score: 5, Funny

    No more cutesy terms, please.

    1. Re:Weblication? by PopeAlien · · Score: 5, Funny

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

      right?

      think of the infotainment value!

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    2. Re:Weblication? by sqlgeek · · Score: 4, Funny

      Is that you President Bush?

  2. Compatibility? by nizo · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  3. Wow by aristus · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!

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    1. Re:Wow by theshowmecanuck · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  4. Re:Is this the rise of by sfjoe · · Score: 4, Funny



    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.

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  5. Re:JavaScript ? I'm out. by cabra771 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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