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AJAX Buzzword Reinvigorates Javascript

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the scripting-is-cool-again-now dept.

samuel4242 writes "Javascript may have been with us since the beginning of the browser, but it's going through a renaissance as companies like Google create Javascript-enabled tools like Google Maps . There's even a nice, newly coined acronym , AJAX for "Asynchronous Javascript and XML". A nice survey article from Infoworld interviews Javascript creator, Brendan Eich, who says that this is what he and Marc Andreessen planned from the beginning. Perhaps AJAX will finally deliver what Java promised. Perhaps it will really provide a solid way to distribute software seamlessly."

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  1. Slower than Java by HeroreV · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Too bad it's so sloooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww...........

    Having to go back to the server again and again and again to get tiny amounts of data doesn't sound too nice to me.

  2. Thank you Microsoft by ad0gg · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Microsoft'sIE was the first browser to offer XML capabilities using activex with microsoft xmldom and XMLHttpRequest object. This same concept was copied by other browsers and made famous by gmail.

    The Ajax concept is based around something called the XMLHttpRequest component. All you Microsoft haters get ready to yell because this was a Microsoft creation! Yes, Microsoft got something right, and did so before anyone else! Microsoft first implemented the XMLHttpRequest object in Internet Explorer 5 for Windows as an ActiveX object (ok, so they didn't get it QUITE right!).

    Source

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  3. MOD PARENT UP by celerityfm · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes mod the parent up. The confusion between Javascript and Java is never ending.

    There is one thing for sure though... nothing will finally deliver what Java promised. It's dead Jim.

    JavaSCRIPT on the other hand...

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