Why Ajax Matters Now
Ajax will free the User Interface Designer as seen in GMail ...
In the earliest days of the Web, designers chafed against the constraints of the medium. The entire interaction model of the Web was rooted in its heritage as a hypertext system: click the link, request the document, wait for the server to respond. Any designer who asked if the basic call-and-response interaction model of the Web could be defied was met with the flat answer “No.”
Eventually, with the evolution of browser technology, that “No” became a “Yes, if…” Yes, if the user has the right browser and the right operating system. Yes, if the user’s connection is fast enough. Yes, if the user has the right plug-in or the right runtime.
The rise of Ajax represents the new and widening recognition that the days of “Yes, if…” are numbered. It’s analogous to the realization we had a couple of years ago, when it became apparent that maturing browser support for CSS and XHTML would finally allow designers the flexibility and ease of maintenance the Web had always promised but never quite delivered. In both cases, the technologies aren’t new; what’s new is our ability to make the most of them on the broadest possible scale." continued ... (Via OK/Cancel)
In the earliest days of the Web, designers chafed against the constraints of the medium. The entire interaction model of the Web was rooted in its heritage as a hypertext system: click the link, request the document, wait for the server to respond. Any designer who asked if the basic call-and-response interaction model of the Web could be defied was met with the flat answer “No.”
Eventually, with the evolution of browser technology, that “No” became a “Yes, if…” Yes, if the user has the right browser and the right operating system. Yes, if the user’s connection is fast enough. Yes, if the user has the right plug-in or the right runtime.
The rise of Ajax represents the new and widening recognition that the days of “Yes, if…” are numbered. It’s analogous to the realization we had a couple of years ago, when it became apparent that maturing browser support for CSS and XHTML would finally allow designers the flexibility and ease of maintenance the Web had always promised but never quite delivered. In both cases, the technologies aren’t new; what’s new is our ability to make the most of them on the broadest possible scale." continued ... (Via OK/Cancel)
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