ajax

[bertine]

lexi, this ajax stuff is so damn cool. i made up a demo of it this morning and now i am jealous that you get to work with it all the time.


for those of you not in the "know" ajax is the blending of technologies that makes gmail as fast and slick as it.

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[bertine.livejournal.com]

this is a chat that i started pulling apart:
http://www.plasticshore.com/viewEntry.php?id=215
and this is a good article on it:
http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php

it is a blending of technologies but it is totally useful. it makes the web much more like a desktop app without having to use something like flash. it is perfect for webgames (until lexi mentioned it i didn't even think of using it for that, funny). the chat is good because it shows you the javascript stuff you need to access the db and to do checks to see if people have the right abilities to use it so you can error out gracefully (or in the case of here, do something more traditional)

[jayp39.livejournal.com]

This looks amazing, can't wait to poke around at it!