Why Microsoft and Google are Cleaning Up With AJAX

OSS_ilation writes "Google uses it, and Microsoft is pursuing it, so there's a lot of hype and hubbub surrounding AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML). AJAX brings together some hot properties, JavaScript, HTML/DHTML and HTML, according to Julie Hanna Farris, founder of Scalix, a Linux-based, e-mail systems vendor. Scalix is using AJAX in Scalix Web Access (SWA), a Web-delivered, e-mail application. AJAX enables advanced features like drag 'n drop, dropdown menus and faster performance capabilities, which are now making their way into Web applications, she said. These kinds of capabilities represent a significant leap in the advancement of Web apps."

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Google is using it, MS is persuing?

[batkiwi]

It didn't get any publicity at all, but most of the reason that IE has, and has had a while, the active X control to do XMLHTTP is because Outlook Web Access has used "ajax" since Exchange 2000.

MS has been using AJAX for YEARS before the term was even invented!

Now, they didn't use it in a cross platform way, but they did it using the same standard IE control that every other AJAX implementation uses and not some whacked out special outlook AX control.

Admittedly in mozilla/firefox it was crap, using the old "refresh" methodology.