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Microsoft to Release AJAX Framework
An anonymous reader writes "News.com is announcing that Microsoft has announced plans to release a JavaScript client framework library for use with ASP.NET 2.0 that makes AJAX style browser clients easier to code. Developers who attend Microsoft's PDC conference in September have been promised an early release of the code."
I'll just hold my breath until they ship.
You call that a troll? I have a whole beltway full of trolls better than that!
If that's the case, I'm sure it will be every bit as successful as Visual J++.
HIJAX...
Thank you, I'll be here all week. Try the veal...
...and bends over to the next website that wants to run the trojan of the day on your box.
"Microsoft has announced plans to release a javascript client framework library for use with ASP.NET 2.0 that makes AJAX style browser clients easier to code"? Alarm bells are ringing.
Of course it runs NetBSD. BTC: 1NT7QvbetmANwaMzhpVL6
that this has the same name as Duckman's idiot son or merely foreshadowing?
If my grammar and spelling are off, I am [distracted/tired/careless] (take your pick)
Comet!
Perhaps Slashcode could be enhanced to provide the functionality. That would make this kind of story much easier to put up.
Hint: the input just needs to be standards-compliant tool. The program should already know which Microsoft product handles the cool-sounding things and be able to choose the upcoming event for the given market segment. The time period should be long enough to allow the code to actually be written, or long enough for the announcement to be forgotten.
sigs, as if you care.
It's more like Ford making cars that can only drive on special roads, roads that no other car company can make cars that drive on. Then Ford patents certain aspects of those roads. After that, Ford uses incentives to convince various others that they should make those roads the only way to drive to their property, eventually convincing highly desirable property owners to switch to these roads. Then, seeing that these roads are the only way to do business with some clients, corporations are forced to start buying Ford cars for their fleets. Soon, there becomes no viable economic reason to buy any other cars for their fleet but Fords.
I could go further, but this analogy thing is starting to annoy even me.
They should call it HIJAX...
Since it's AJAX the code should be pretty clean.
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
This was a very funny article. My favorite bits:
A growing number of proponents argue that applications created with AJAX perform better than today's Web browser-based applications.
Because as we all know, AJAX applications don't run in the browser.
"People who do (AJAX development) are rocket scientists," Fitzgerald said.
While I do feel that the intellect of rocket scientists is greatly overrated by the general public, I don't think he was commenting as to the simplicity of AJAX here. Which begs the question, if you think AJAX is complicated, Mr. Fitzgerald, what exactly are you doing in the IT profession? AJAX is about as complicated as a ruler. Perhaps you should stick to playing with brightly colored bits of string and leave the thinking jobs to the "rocket scientists".
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You should see some of the horrible/redundant code I've seen written for AJAX.
You just posted some.