A term for those cool new Google Apps: Ajax

Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Darren points to a cool article from Adaptive Path that gives a new term for the cool apps Google has been building lately: Ajax (Asynchronous Javascript and XML).

Sure, XMLHTTP async calls are something web developers have been doing for a while, but Google's "iPodded it"^[1]. I'm looking forward to those Client Callbacks in Whidbey, especially if the Javascript is cross-browser.

Some cool graphics to tempt you over to the Adaptive Path article:

Adaptive Path has an rss feed available, highly recommended:

[1] Oh, am I getting into the term coining excitement? Looks that way:
iPodd(ed) v: to leverage existing credibility and slick design to popularize an existing technology.

4 Comments

Now, who's going to be the first to provide a generic ASP.NET Server Control which allows this for all pages? (SmartNavigation doesn't count!)

Scott Galloway - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:40:00 AM

Oh, neither does ASP.NET ClientCallback :-) I want it all and I want it now ;-)

Scott Galloway - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:45:00 AM

I've heard rumors that some of the user controls in Visual Studio 2005 may utilize this functionality. Is this the case?

Levi Rosol - Friday, February 25, 2005 10:08:00 PM

It is really cool to discover the new language and be the first to come up with an aconym for it....a place in Web history

dynamic - Monday, March 14, 2005 2:55:00 PM

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