>>new label for technology that's been around a long time
and....? If it encourages it's use then it's a great victory.
vijay chopra wrote:
Indeed. I fully understand what AJAX is, after all it stands for
"asynchronous javascript and XML", however as Jakob and Graeme have
said, it's just a flashy new label for technology that's been around a
long time. For some reason it's acquired a new acronym. I admit I was
being facetious when I said it's just javascript, but I believe my
point stands. javascript and XML have both been around donkeys years.
Vijay.
On 19/10/05, *Amias Channer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:26:26 +0100
vijay chopra <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> No offence, but I wish people would stop using the "AJAX"
acronym, Ajax is a
> dutch football team, the 'new' acronym is just another way of
saying "look I
> can use javascript" i.e something people have been doing for
years </rant>
> (sorry 'AJAX' is one of my pet annoyances) That aside it looks
like a good
> app. :-)
And people saying AJAX is just javascript is a pet annoyance of
mine too ;-)
The term AJAX (as distinct from the footbal club Ajax) in its
original usage
refered not just to using Javascript . It's more about the fact
the the code fetches the data instead of pulling it from the HTML
file.
see
http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php
The javascript actually writes the page based on the XML data it
has collected , it can also filter and sort this data (think
google maps).
This is not very different from the conventional model where the
data comes
as part of the HTML file and updates don't happen without a page
refresh.
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX
I think this destinction is important although the common misuse
of the term
would suggest that others don't . they are of course wrong ;-)
Toodle-pip
Amias
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