On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:08:51 +0100, Micha Schopman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rob,
> 
> Ajax isn't from Google. It is a name "thought up" by someone from
> Adaptive Path which probably did it because of personal PR stunt, but
> the name eventually floated around the blogs as the new handle for the
> combination of xhtml + css + xmlhttprequest. It is easier to say Ajax,
> than Single Paged Interface, XmlHttpRequest, Dynamic JavaScript
> MuchoBlabla framework, etc.

Ah I didn't know that - I've only perused the links as I kind of know
how it works already

> However, this approach to the web isn't something Google invented,

yeah no kidding ;-D - Neuromancer was out around the same time as Flex
which was well before this stuff started going around.

> So for me it is funny to see the "Google" invented it stamp on it,
> because others like Erik (webfx) have been using it for quite some time
> now. It only needed that enormous exposure, and I hope it continuous.

Yeah me too
 
> So, just use Ajax, Google has nothing to do with it, except doing
> marketing for us developers.

Well, Neuromancer is a set of libraries that abstract, use, provide
factories for, and marshal objects using Ajax then - :)

Thanks for the clear up Micha

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