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Intelligent Web Applications with AJAX

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:00:00 EDT

Browser-based applications are widely used and we like the fact that we can access them from anywhere. But from the users' perspective, the productivity level of Web applications still doesn't approximate the productivity of desktop programs. The good news is the gap is closing: the accumulated potential of multiple technologies has boosted a whole new breed of HTML-based apps that are as powerful as the desktop ones. Meet AJAX.

Meet AJAX: Intelligent Web Applications with AJAX

Sun, 19 Feb 2006 17:45:00 EST

Developing Intelligent Web Applications With AJAX (Part 2)

Fri, 25 Nov 2005 13:00:00 EST

The publicity that AJAX grabbed over the last half a year is based on closing the gap between the Web applications and the desktop applications, combining the 'reach' and 'rich.' At the same time, the gap between the technological level of AJAX and what corporate developers expect in their modern arsenal is really astonishing. After all, AJAX is neither a tool nor a platform. There is no AJAX standards committee or community process in place. While software vendors are crafting proprietary development platforms on top of AJAX - which pretty much means 'from scratch' - early adopters of AJAX are left on their own.