What's Spreading "the AJAX Wildfire"?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday August 12, 2006 @11:37AM from the high-prevailing-winds-and-lack-of-rainfall? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "AJAXWorld Magazine is running an article entitled "What's So Special About AJAX?" in which the majority of the contributors agree among themselves that AJAX "heralds a new, global sense of what the web can be and what the web can do, in ways that are so different but so much better than what we have been used to." While many of those the magazine consulted adduced technical reasons for the spread what one of them, Rich Internet Application pioneer Coach Wei, calls "the AJAX wildfire," only two mention how human nature — including that of software developers — is, well, notoriously susceptible to the latest fad. Which side would you agree with?"

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I hate AJAX.... by sloths · 2006-08-12 12:05 · Score: 0, Flamebait

For the most part. Gmail does it well, but I can't stand Digg.com.

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Re:not just a new fad by russellh · 2006-08-12 13:59 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I don't object to Ajax, I actually think it's pretty cool. But it's not new, and it doesn't change the way the Web actually works. You're either insane or you weren't there in 1994. From the perspective of one who thought CGI was stupid in 1994, AJAX is totally new and better. That is all.

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