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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. 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. 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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