my recent reads..

Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters; From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
Power Sources and Supplies: World Class Designs
Red Storm Rising
Locked On
Analog Circuits Cookbook
The Teeth Of The Tiger
Sharpe's Gold
Without Remorse
Practical Oscillator Handbook
Red Rabbit

Sunday, December 04, 2005

Time to test out AJAX?

I see AJAX popping up in discussions ever more frequently these days, an apparent groundswell around the next great thing for solving the perennial issue of delivering a rich client experience over the web. So far I've just been reading and listening. As with all new acronyms, it takes a while to figure out just exacly what the hell its all about. My "Ahah!" moment came after reading an article at AdaptivePath.
I must admit it seems AJAX is more a pattern than a specification, and its by no means clear that AJAX is anything more that a fad. It's not hard to find some interesting and contrary points of view on the web - QuirksBlog for example.
Anyway, after all that reading, I'm itching to at least go for a test drive. Have to have some playtime soon ... and after listening to this webdevradio podcast, I think I may start out with a look at phAtJAX.

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