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COWS Ajax - Ajax Evolved
nuttzy writes, "COWS Ajax takes over where Ajax leaves off. The web has gone through a great period of experimentation and there is now a dizzying array of frameworks, add-ons, howtos, and books. The common drawback these Ajax aids all fail to overcome is that, even with aids, apps take a long time to create and debug. Many times someone has already created a great tool and you'd really just rather use theirs instead of reinventing it (especially if it's a Google, Yahoo, or other trusted player). Wouldn't it be great to drop in a single line of code to gain a huge amount of functionality that frees you for something else? You can't do that with Ajax, but you can with COWS (Changeable Origin Web Services) Ajax. Now highly interactive third party services like SpellingCow are possible."
Sounds good. Developers should milk it for all its worth.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
Next time you release an API, don't tell us "Instead of sorting through the techno-babble, let's just say [whatever]." This phrase immediately engages my bullshit sensors. You've apparently got a nice wrapper around the cross-site problems, just say that. Anyone who understands will be interested, anyone who doesn't won't care either way.
there is no need to sign your posts. this isn't usenet. your username is right there above your post. stop it.
You ever heard of libraries? Sheesh, you should pay the man more if he found a way to increase productivity for next to nothing.
Occam's razor is the blind faith in the natural selection of least resistance and in universal oversimplification. -- EF
You have two cows. They eat AJAX and die.
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It really is asking for trouble, once you have third party javascript on your site you are
basically at the mercy of whoever wrote that javascript.
They can do nice stuff, and not so nice stuff with your end users (popups, form content
hijacking and so on).
And possibly lots of stuff that I have not even thought of. Also, they're pretty much
in control of the timing on your site, some browsers do not display the page until all
java script has loaded and if you are loading it from a remote server then you are
basically as slow as that server.
Yay, buzzwords! Ruby on Rails was fun, and now there's COWS Ajax!
What's next, Python on a Plane???