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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. Re:AJAX? by marika · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No it's a city in Ontario.

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    This is totally insecure, but very convenient.
  2. What's going on here? by millennial · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When I login, my user name doesn't show up on the first page. I get weird trailing characters like "-×oe" after the story, and I can't see my user info page. Is Slashdot broken (again)??

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    I am scientifically inaccurate.
  3. Re:Is this the rise of by Dan667 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Always the way. Finally find something worthy to mod up and my mod points expire right before I can use one....

  4. Free software by obender · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Does anyone know if their licence is GPL compatible?