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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Re:What's so special about AJAX? by polarian · 2006-08-12 12:12 · Score: 0, Offtopic

What is so interesting about the internet?

Nothing! The tech for it has been around forever (communication + electricity + silicon), they just slapped a new name on it.

What is sepecial about async. javascript based communication is the way it is being used, not the technology itself.