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Some insights about the development of Atlas behaviors

Nikhil has an excellent post about developing a client-side behavior with Atlas. If you're thinking about developing your own Atlas components, this is a must-read:
http://www.nikhilk.net/Entry.aspx?id=107

UPDATE: There's also a more entry-level, page developer oriented video on Atlas from Nikhil on MSDN TV:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20060119AtlasNK/manifest.xml

Posted: Feb 04 2006, 05:15 PM by Bertrand Le Roy | with 2 comment(s)

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Aby Mammen Mathew said:

I am not sure how effective AJAX is, basically you need two things - 1. Asycnhronous mechanism
2. XML feed

however I noticed most efforts using javascript are reinventing the wheel which java had already designed and built. why can't we just have a control that provides just the above two artifacts and have java component meddle the dynamic aspect.

Second thing I noticed is there is no code signing for javascript libraries, hence any garbage can be fed on the uplink.

This weekend i am going to take a good look at this AJAX nonesense.
# February 24, 2006 7:30 PM

Bertrand Le Roy said:

Way to go. Just start with the assumption that it is nonsense...
Seriously, Java is out of the question for a number of reasons, the most obvious being that it's not installed on all machines. The goal here is to be able to easily build rich applications on just a modern browser using HTML and JavaScript without any optional plug-in.
Do you have a scenario where the lack of code signing is a problem?
# February 24, 2006 7:39 PM