Comments on: AJAX http://www.robertnyman.com/2005/04/08/ajax/ Web development and Internet trends Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:45:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Robert http://www.robertnyman.com/2005/04/08/ajax/#comment-108 Robert Mon, 11 Apr 2005 11:56:49 +0000 http://www.robertnyman.com/2005/04/10/ajax/#comment-108 Kind of hard to deliver content on-the-fly without scripting, don't you think? :-) Kind of hard to deliver content on-the-fly without scripting, don’t you think? :-)

]]> By: Johan http://www.robertnyman.com/2005/04/08/ajax/#comment-106 Johan Mon, 11 Apr 2005 10:38:32 +0000 http://www.robertnyman.com/2005/04/10/ajax/#comment-106 I heard .NET will fix everything, no more javascript is needed :-)) I heard .NET will fix everything, no more javascript is needed :-))

]]> By: Robert http://www.robertnyman.com/2005/04/08/ajax/#comment-84 Robert Sun, 10 Apr 2005 01:07:38 +0000 http://www.robertnyman.com/2005/04/10/ajax/#comment-84 Yes, Gmail is a very nice one! Yes, Gmail is a very nice one!

]]> By: Rimantas http://www.robertnyman.com/2005/04/08/ajax/#comment-83 Rimantas Sun, 10 Apr 2005 01:07:12 +0000 http://www.robertnyman.com/2005/04/10/ajax/#comment-83 I'd say most notable use is in Gmail. I’d say most notable use is in Gmail.

]]> By: Robert http://www.robertnyman.com/2005/04/08/ajax/#comment-82 Robert Sun, 10 Apr 2005 01:06:43 +0000 http://www.robertnyman.com/2005/04/10/ajax/#comment-82 As a sidenote, I just have to add this link Dejan sent me: <a href="http://serversideguy.blogspot.com/2004/12/google-suggest-dissected.html" rel="nofollow">Google Suggest Dissected...</a>. As a sidenote, I just have to add this link Dejan sent me:
Google Suggest Dissected….

]]> By: Robert http://www.robertnyman.com/2005/04/08/ajax/#comment-81 Robert Sun, 10 Apr 2005 01:06:19 +0000 http://www.robertnyman.com/2005/04/10/ajax/#comment-81 Dejan, I haven't really considered the bandwidth issue. Interesting to hear! Dejan,

I haven’t really considered the bandwidth issue. Interesting to hear!

]]> By: Dejan http://www.robertnyman.com/2005/04/08/ajax/#comment-80 Dejan Sun, 10 Apr 2005 01:03:57 +0000 http://www.robertnyman.com/2005/04/10/ajax/#comment-80 I am using this "new" technology for some time now. A few years ago I started learning SOAP but then discovered <a href="http://www.xmlrpc.com/" rel="nofollow">XML-RPC</a> and liked it more because of its simplicity. AJAX is making pages more interactive, being especially effective for visitors with narrower bandwidth, and for those with higher connection speed, web applications can really compete with winforms. Lately, most notable use of this technology is being presented on <a href="http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en" rel="nofollow">Google Suggest</a>, where sugestions fetched from Google database of keywords are presented (and autocompleted) as you type. That is really impressive. You can also find it on other Google sites such as Maps and Gmail. Besides being really cool and usable, this technique is having one aspect that is mainly unnoticed - saving bandwidth. Since noone of us is ever satisfied with speed of his/hers internet connection, in the long term this could bring huge savings in traffic, especially taking into account that ASP.NET introduced viewstate that sometimes can make your pages really bulky and server roundtrips rather expensive. I am using this “new” technology for some time now. A few years ago I started learning SOAP but then discovered XML-RPC and liked it more because of its simplicity.
AJAX
is making pages more interactive, being especially effective for
visitors with narrower bandwidth, and for those with higher connection
speed, web applications can really compete with winforms. Lately, most
notable use of this technology is being presented on Google Suggest,
where sugestions fetched from Google database of keywords are presented
(and autocompleted) as you type. That is really impressive. You can
also find it on other Google sites such as Maps and Gmail.
Besides
being really cool and usable, this technique is having one aspect that
is mainly unnoticed - saving bandwidth. Since noone of us is ever
satisfied with speed of his/hers internet connection, in the long term
this could bring huge savings in traffic, especially taking into
account that ASP.NET introduced viewstate that sometimes can make your
pages really bulky and server roundtrips rather expensive.

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