February 21, 2005

Ajax is the new black.

Ajax is what Adaptive Path calls Asynchronous Javascript + XML. And boy howdy is it powerful. Google Suggest and Google Maps are two very high-profile implmentations of this type of application.

Ajax really isn’t an application, methodology, technology etc. It’s several things, all working together.

  • XHTML and CSS
  • The DOM
  • XML and XSLT
  • XMLHttpRequest
  • Javascript

This article by Jesse James Garrett is so worthwhile. The charts, graphics and writeup illustrate the flow of data nicely. A very good article.

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Tagged As Big Ideas, Coding, Development, HTML, Javascript, Strategy, Web Standards

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Posted at 11:42 AM

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philippe

this preview looks good, but a link towards the article could help too :)

Posted by: philippe | February 21, 2005 02:06 PM

Tony

How right your are. Fixed now.

Posted by: Tony [TypeKey Profile Page] | February 21, 2005 02:08 PM

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