Everybody (well, at least web developers!) is speaking about AJAX and it really seems it’s going to change the web as we know it. But is it all gold shining?
In case you don’t know much (or anything) about this new technology i suggest you to take a look on Wikipedia and Adaptive Path, the company where Garrett (the smart guy who invented the lovely acronym) works.
Anyway, since an image is better than 103 words here’s a nice diagram (courtesy of Adaptive Path)
So… what’s my opinion?
Actually i’m very curious about it. It is surely useful for a wide range of tasks but i doubt it will be the next big thing. No revolutions.
The reason of this opinion is in my belief on mobile computing. Mobile phones became smart phones and soon we will be able to surf the web (hopefully at affordable prices) from any place. I can see a bit problem about this. Lots of poorly designed websites, full of useless flash animations and so on…
Will these mobile devices be able to handle Ajax? This will depend on the implementation of Javascript.
Isn’t it more important to have a website that just works? I really think so! So this is my opinion and my hope… the next big thing: (X)HTML & CSS.
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