Contents tagged with AJAX
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Google, I Was Kidding... Honest!
Last year, I published a widely unread set of what I thought were humorous predictions for the technology world in 2007. One of those items titled "AJAX 2.0" stated that Google would create a technology that makes it possible for web applications to access the local resources on the user computer, thereby recreating ActiveX. This was an attempt at a joke aimed at the fervor with which the development industry jumped on the AJAX bandwagon after the technology had been around for years.
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Build Your AJAX Applications The Smart Client Way
I've been thinking about AJAX a lot lately. Those of you who have read my past blogs (and thanks to both of you) know that I'm a fan of Smart Client applications and have been fairly critical of the mass enthusiasm for all things AJAX. But like any good architect I have to keep my options open and so I've been thinking about AJAX a lot lately. And what I've noticed is that AJAX in fact has remarkable similarities to Smart Client development.