Can someone explain in broad terms what Ajax et al can do? why would I want to use it?
....and yes Mike...I'll sign up for the new list ;-) Cheers Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. phone: 250.480.0642 fax: 250.480.1264 cell: 250.920.8830 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.electricedgesystems.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 8:27 AM Subject: Re: Ajax > 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 > > -- > ~Blog~ > http://www.robrohan.com > ~The cfml plug-in for eclipse~ > http://cfeclipse.tigris.org > ~open source xslt IDE~ > http://treebeard.sourceforge.net > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:199131 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
