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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'?"
First of all, almost any PC will have a semi-recent IE installed (or Firefox for the more enlightened), and that is already enough to run Google's stuff.
Compare that to the Java plugin requirement, which, sad to say, is pretty far behind in availability on most PCs.
Also, Javascript-based stuff is easier to program, trust me on this. Layout of elements is much easier - and it can be done in any decent HTML editor. Finally, there's no thread-related insanity that AWT/Swing bring to the table.
http://zero-to-enterprise.blogspot.com/
I bet someone else will post the exact same thing, but instead they will replace Java with Flash...
I think the point is that you don't need to insert an object or rely on a 3rd party enviroment. You can do it in Javascript.
Also, the reason this is so very cool is that it doesn't tie your applicaiton into a backend of any kind, you can scale your backend as long as it spits out XML. I think this is the reason so many of the big companies are going to it. They require a bit more flexibility on that end.
Fantasy remains a human right; we make in our measure and in our derivative mode... -- JRR Tolkien
Adaptive Path Services: "We evaluate your site and offer detailed recommendations."
wait wait, this is rich, let me get this straight: a web design company wrote a article saying what you're using now is the "old" sucky way and their new stuff is the way to go??
hold on! this is revolutionary! ;)
Not that AJAX isn't great, i'm sure it is, but this is like reading a article on how great a new car is that was written by the manufacture. Perhaps a more unbiased article needs to be submitted before I believe it.
oh and mod me +5 flamebait cuz i have so much karma i'm sniffing clouds.
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
function getDataDOM(url){
data = (!window.XMLHttpRequest)? (new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")):(new XMLHttpRequest());
data.onreadystatechange = readyStateChangeFunction;
data.open("GET",url,true);
data.send(null);
return data;
};
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