Wednesday, December 07, 2005
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AJAX is a new Microsoft technology?!?

Slashdot has some funny ones from time to time. Like this one, where the author contends that AJAX is a new Microsoft technology.

(note: the article he links to about AJAX is worth the read!)

But AJAX isn't new. It is old - many years old, for all that it didn't become popular until recently.

And it was the tech darling Google that made it popular, not Microsoft.

Sure it is based on technology Microsoft put in the browser many years ago, but until Firefox added support and Google used it broadly it was a sleeper...

But on slashdot everything negative must be associated with Microsoft - it's a rule I guess...

 

Wednesday, December 07, 2005 7:42:46 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [5]  | 
Wednesday, December 07, 2005 9:58:24 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
Rocky,

I see that VB vs. C# is very popular blog. You got a lot of replies. I’ve never seen you blog about AJAX. What's your opinion about it?
Vadim
Wednesday, December 07, 2005 11:33:04 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
I'm sure I'll do a proper entry on it at some point.

I think the article linked to from the slashdot post had some good points - from a web purist perspective. The web was a document/page viewing technology that has been subverted and hacked extensively to become something entirely different: an application platform.

If you hold to the document/page world-view then AJAX is evil. But if you hold to the browser-as-a-platform view then AJAX is a logical step forward - and a long-overdue one at that.

If AJAX is used where there would have been a postback it is fine I think. But my fear is that people will abuse it - doing AJAX calls where no postback would have occurred before. People will try to replicate Windows Forms and it will be terrible... But that's their lookout :)
Rockford Lhotka
Thursday, December 08, 2005 9:53:49 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
The great irony about AJAX... it is the hottest tech around (gauged by the hype cycle) - yet it has zero to do with OOP, distributed OOP, or anything else pundits have been talking about for the past few years in programming circles as "bleeding edge", outside of, perhaps, web services, if (big if) the thing on the other end of an AJAX based call is, in fact, a proper web service. Yes... if you contort your brain and look at your monitor sideways, you can to "object oriented javascript"... but everyone knows that is BS too.

Just an observation :)
Aaron Erickson
Friday, December 09, 2005 8:58:07 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
hey rocky,
i'm sure you're aware of this (as is everybody else that reads the article), but it's a spoof.

just saying.
Ryan Cammer
Tuesday, December 20, 2005 11:05:05 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
Basically they took an old article on frames and replaced all occurences of "Frames" with "AJAX". The moron who slashdotted was clueless in two areas.
Michael Brown
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