Cutting Through the Ajax Hype

An anonymous reader writes "If you're thinking about building an Ajax application of your own, this article would be a good place to start. It's an introductory-level guide about when and how to implement Ajax. It provides a balanced discussion about where exactly using Ajax makes sense, and where it does not."

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Isn't it sort of saddening...

[urbanradar]

...how much time passed in between stories about said AJAX hype hitting Slashdot and stories about "Cutting through the AJAX hype" hitting Slashdot?

Ajax Hype

[John Sokol]

Oh man, I had written a chat room in back 1996 using what I called server push Java Script and nobody paid much attention, although it was on many adult video chat sites. Example at http://www.videotechnology.com/chatroom.html

    We did many of the same things using that technique that people are doing now in Ajax, interactive games, and database etc using it.

  Suddenly some marketing guy calls it "Ajax", which is almost doing the same thing is all the rage.