Re: JavaScript by any other name is "AJAX"?
Re: JavaScript by any other name is "AJAX"?
- Subject: Re: JavaScript by any other name is "AJAX"?
- From: Paul Lynch <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 20:13:05 +0100
On 29 Mar 2006, at 17:31, Jerry W. Walker wrote:
On Mar 29, 2006, at 10:56 AM, Paul Lynch wrote:
On 29 Mar 2006, at 15:59, Jerry W. Walker wrote:
I personally believe that AJAX is a useful term for a collection
of existing technologies (JavaScript and XML asynchronously
interacting with a web server) to achieve with HTTP a user
experience that mimics the client-server experience of the 80's.
I haven't often seen it used for simple JavaScript tricks.
80s? That's an interesting choice - if the early 80s, then colour
in their 80x24 terminals was an adventurous design decision. I'd
view AJAX as a selection of technologies intended to permit more
of a GUI design than the transaction based design inherent in
http. But then that's a gradual fade in from very plain html
designs, so I guess I'd rather avoid the term at all.
Actually, I was thinking more of the late 80's, but the reason I
mentioned that decade was because of a comment made to me by a very
young programmer when I first started doing WebObjects in the 90's.
I mentioned that I felt that client-server was so much richer than
the web based programming we were doing together, which seemed like
a throwback to the old IBM 3290 terminals. He turned toward me with
a dismissive glance and said, "Client-server? That's so 1980's".
Heh, I was still feeling like the 1980's was pretty modern. But he
was in grade school then, so, of course one didn't want to
reference technologies that were THAT old! I made a mental note to
avoid any discussion of punched cards, punched paper tape and
acoustic coupled modems. :-)
Starting with WebObjects in '96 was the first time that the
transactional nature of http was brought home to me, despite a few
years of perl and Ted Shelton's (ITS) OO web product, whatever it was
called; quite a few techniques learnt programming CICS almost 20
years before came in handy. Client-server (and n-tier) has been and
gone so many times in the 90s alone; I wonder if people will ever
conclude that it's a matter of resource allocation rather than
fundamental application design. Kids today, huh?
Paul
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