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Gaia, a better way of AJAX?

In my opinion it is. Take a look at GAIA Ajax Widgets!! This is a completely different approach of Ajax then the MS way but it really has advantages over the MS way. And it renders fine in all major browsers IE, Firefox and Safari and you can even use it in combination wit the Mono platform.

Large calls over the wire are gone.. It all works based on java scripts so updates of controls are not done by sending the HTML but by sending a java script call. And all in the way you are used to code, so no hurdles are need to be taken.

Ever had the problem that you had several parts of the screen needed to be updated and had the controls triggering this event outside of the update panels? Well, with the gaia placeholder you can ForceAnUpdate and have the areas rendered the way you need it.

Having build a lot of CRM and other Database management oriented applications in ASP.NET  I have more fun with Gaia then with the MS Ajax so far..

So this is my winner for 2007 in the development web applications with a bite and a good user expericence! 


Check it out! I never ever used commercial Ajax components but for this one I will start using it (I will buy a commercial license in the near future as I cannot always comply on the GPL license). Yes, they do offer a GPL version of their software so you have all the sources you will ever need.

Get FREE Ajax Controls now!

 With kind regards,

 Michael Hensen
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Posted: Nov 03 2007, 02:59 PM by Michael Hensen | with 9 comment(s)
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Comments

Andy said:

How much are you getting to do this? I am only asking this because of the refferal id at the end of the url.

# November 3, 2007 12:16 PM

mark said:

Sound really bad to me if you use a refer id to promote something.

But it's also available GPL so i don't think he really gets money for this.

# November 3, 2007 5:16 PM

Ryan said:

Not sure if you've dug very deep into the MS Ajax offering, but there's a hell of a lot more to it than the stupid Update Panel. Take a look sometime.

# November 3, 2007 5:33 PM

Fabrice said:

You should make it clear that you are affiliated with the vendor, because as it stands your post looks outrageously like pure advertisement.

# November 3, 2007 5:56 PM

flyswat said:

The Gaia guys are notorious for trashing other frameworks on their developer blogs, and in general being total douches.

Even if it was the best framework in the world, I would rather not support them.

# November 4, 2007 12:38 AM

Thomas Hansen said:

@MostOfYou

I noticed this blog in our logs at our webserver today, we've not asked Michael to publish this in any ways, but he has created an affiliate link which means he will get 30% of all sales that is generated from users registering from this site whenever they do a purchase...

@flyswat

It is true that I have created a couple of biased but none-the-less accurate comparisons between Gaia an other toolkits. I guess it was unwise of me even though I tried to keep it as informal and feature-wize as possible. Still "trashing other frameworks" is just not true unless you look at my Adobe Flex blogs a couple of months ago which was written in frustration over my fear of Adobe Flex being able to completely replace the open standards and openness of the web which we have spent the last 40 years creating with it's binary ActiveX2.0 technology...

BTW it is also _not_ the "team" it is me in person who have done this.

# November 4, 2007 7:02 AM

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# November 5, 2007 3:32 AM

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# March 27, 2010 11:03 AM

weblogs.asp.net said:

Gaia a better way of ajax.. Peachy :)

# May 16, 2011 6:30 PM
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