dinsdag, oktober 24, 2006
AJAX
For me, the social aspects of web2.0 are much more important than the technical ones. But there are some new technological evolutions that are characteristic for the new web applications, and the most important one of them is undoubtebly AJAX.
In short, AJAX technology offloads some interaction and application logic to the browser. It makes the application more responsive and dynamic, because there is no back and forth to the web server needed anymore for every single click. It's done by using a whole lot of JavaScript on the browser side.
I like the idea very much. In fact, also Microsoft and the ASP.NET community are working on a project codenamed ATLAS, that will bring AJAX technology to ASP.NET applications. But I'm not a good enough programmer to be able to deeply understand or write all these javascripts. I can and will include ready-made AJAX components, such as these. The AJAX controls toolkit is expected somewhere near the end of the year, which should be in time for my prototype site.
DECISION: I will only use free, ready-made AJAX controls and scripts
In short, AJAX technology offloads some interaction and application logic to the browser. It makes the application more responsive and dynamic, because there is no back and forth to the web server needed anymore for every single click. It's done by using a whole lot of JavaScript on the browser side.
I like the idea very much. In fact, also Microsoft and the ASP.NET community are working on a project codenamed ATLAS, that will bring AJAX technology to ASP.NET applications. But I'm not a good enough programmer to be able to deeply understand or write all these javascripts. I can and will include ready-made AJAX components, such as these. The AJAX controls toolkit is expected somewhere near the end of the year, which should be in time for my prototype site.
DECISION: I will only use free, ready-made AJAX controls and scripts
