..... AJAX - Any Future?

Yahoo using AJAX in Newest Search Beta


http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000186.html

http://instant.search.yahoo.com/

Although interactive "Ajax" Web applications like this one are gaining in notoriety, they’re still far from mainstream. Instant Search represents an experience that’s different from what most of us expect from a search engine, so it takes a little getting used to

Although this technology has been around a while - Giving it a Marketable Memorable NAME has made an immense difference in it's aknowlegement.  These stories are JUST FROM ONE MORNING ALONE


      And that could bode ill for Microsoft Corp. and its flagship Office suite, which packs together word processing, spreadsheets and other applications. 
      The threat comes in large part from Ajax, a set of Web development tools that speeds up Web applications by summoning snippets of data as needed instead of pulling entire Web pages over and over.

http://business.bostonherald.com/technologyNews/view.bg?articleid=108456

http://www.legitreviews.com/newsposts.php?id=1335

AJAX and Atlas only let you send Javascript down. You will see that deploymet as Ajax in Windows extend to other capabilities in the Windows environment," he said.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2039

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1876535,00.asp

http://www.kgw.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8DE8IIOO.html

AFLAX is in the news - but not for IE


AFLAX (Wikipedia Entry) is a method through which developers may use JavaScript and Flash together to create AJAX-type applications, but with a much richer set of vector drawing controls than are available in either Internet Explorer or FireFox. Developers using this library have access to the full range of Flash features, but without ever touching the Flash IDE.

http://www.aflax.org/

Interesting how important creating Buzz words or Marketing can be at the right time - think of all the people really responsible for creating this programming that  will not get credit



Led by "The Father of AJAX" himself, the charismatic Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path, "Real-World AJAX" has

http://www.ajaxseminar.com/

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2088644,00.asp

http://blogs.zdnet.com/micro-markets/?p=920

"Back in '96-'97, me and a group of people, many of whom are here at Google, helped build stuff that these days is called AJAX," Bosworth said. "We sat down and took a hard look at what was going to happen with the Internet and we concluded, in the face of unyielding opposition and animosity from virtually every senior person at Microsoft, that the thick client was on its way out and it was going to be replaced by browser-based apps.

"Saying this at Microsoft back in '96 was roughly equivalent to wandering around in a fire wearing matches," he said. "But we concluded we should go and build this thing. And we put all this stuff together so people could build thin-client applications."

That was 10 years ago. "Now you hear about AJAX all the time, but this was built in '97," Bosworth said. Yet, AJAX failed for a variety of reasons, including some "big mistakes."

The mistakes, he said, were misperceptions of the realities of the way people would use the technology.

For instance, Bosworth said a cardinal rule of his is KISS, or, in his words, "Keep It Simple and Stupid." Gestures like tooling, icons, right-click and drag-drop are too obscure, he said.