Comments on: This Just In: AJAX Is Important http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2005/06/this-just-in-ajax-is-important/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:37:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Mark Finkle http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2005/06/this-just-in-ajax-is-important/#comment-36 Mark Finkle Mon, 04 Jul 2005 22:10:00 +0000 http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/?p=36#comment-36 I am glad Microsoft is embracing AJAX and the browser (again). I am just remembering that they stopped innovating web technologies before when browser apps started to rival desktop apps. I am not ready to dive into the Koolaid yet. Also, I take issue with the notion that writing DHTML/Javascript is messy. The way I see it, if you write messy Javascript, you write messy code period. And as to dealing with cross browser scripting problems, how is this different from cross platform desktop problems? Developers can deal with it. I am glad Microsoft is embracing AJAX and the browser (again). I am just remembering that they stopped innovating web technologies before when browser apps started to rival desktop apps. I am not ready to dive into the Koolaid yet.

Also, I take issue with the notion that writing DHTML/Javascript is messy. The way I see it, if you write messy Javascript, you write messy code period. And as to dealing with cross browser scripting problems, how is this different from cross platform desktop problems? Developers can deal with it.

]]> By: Anonymous http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2005/06/this-just-in-ajax-is-important/#comment-35 Anonymous Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:34:00 +0000 http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/?p=36#comment-35 I think they're doing it because they <I>can</I>, and because there clearly is a need for it. Writing "code" in Java Script really is a hell of a mess, and if Ajax based technology is going to be lifted to the next level, there's a need for a mid-layer that shields the developers from having to deal with the sheer messiness of Java Script + HTML. Elling I think they’re doing it because they can, and because there clearly is a need for it. Writing “code” in Java Script really is a hell of a mess, and if Ajax based technology is going to be lifted to the next level, there’s a need for a mid-layer that shields the developers from having to deal with the sheer messiness of Java Script + HTML.

Elling

]]> By: dave http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2005/06/this-just-in-ajax-is-important/#comment-34 dave Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:11:00 +0000 http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/?p=36#comment-34 "Microsoft is late and needs to make some mindshare." Seems like this is all they've been doing in the last year. “Microsoft is late and needs to make some mindshare.”

Seems like this is all they’ve been doing in the last year.

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