Lift makes AJAX easy, but Lift has nothing to do with AJAX. Lift makes a lot of things easy.
I've built half a dozen sites in Lift so far, with several more in the works, and most of them use no AJAX at all. That said, there is a lot to be said for AJAX when used properly. I think you're way off on that. The problem is (as with pretty much everything else on the Web), it's rarely used properly. Google does it mostly right. Facebook is mostly a mess. Chas. Joe Wass wrote: > This may be heresy on this list, but I'll ask it anyway. A general > point for discussion which I'm raising because the Lift Book mentions > AJAX early on in the PocketChange app. > > How important is AJAX and all the associated Web 2.0 stuff to you and > to your projects? I'm quite happy without Javascript and AJAX. More > often than not they're doing the kind of thing you could just as > easily do with traditional technologies. Save for one web-app (Google > Mail), I don't think a single site I use has been improved for it. > Particular examples are Slashdot and Facebook. Give me good old HTML > any day. > > I've got a few projects in the pipeline and I intend to use Lift for > all of them, it looks excellent and from the source I've read very > nicely engineered. But I will expressly avoid using anything other > than old-fashioned HTML as much as I can, largely because I'm > targetting browsers of unknown vintage in less economically developed > countries and I'd like to be able to use my own site without cookies > or javascript if I want to. > > Have I missed the point of Lift entirely? Am I in a small minority? Am > I crazy? > > Joe > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
