AJAX summit continued 3
Day two of the O'reilly/Adaptive Path AJAX confab in SF started as a continuation of day 1, with a series of presenters showing off their latest AJAX tricks.
Dunstan Orchard from Odeo / Apple spoke immediately before I did. He advocated writing a non-AJAX, basic html application first, and then adding in AJAX as “sugar”. This obviously facilitates backwards-compatibility, but it just as clearly limits the scope for AJAX-based interaction: AJAX is reduced to a tactical optimization rather than being central to the design. This is actually an eminently practical approach, particularly for large consumer sites (like apple) that demand backwards compatibility, and cannot afford to eliminate even corner-case browsers (like IE 5 on the Mac). (Via Jonathan Boutelle)
Dunstan Orchard from Odeo / Apple spoke immediately before I did. He advocated writing a non-AJAX, basic html application first, and then adding in AJAX as “sugar”. This obviously facilitates backwards-compatibility, but it just as clearly limits the scope for AJAX-based interaction: AJAX is reduced to a tactical optimization rather than being central to the design. This is actually an eminently practical approach, particularly for large consumer sites (like apple) that demand backwards compatibility, and cannot afford to eliminate even corner-case browsers (like IE 5 on the Mac). (Via Jonathan Boutelle)
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