AJAX - Rediscovered
AJAX is not a new technology as we all know. We was rediscovering the interaction of Javascript with Dynamic applications with google specially (Google Suggest, Google Maps, Google Personalized Home Page, GMail ...).
We was using AJAX in PHPTunisie.net for example since last year (2004) for the live search, There is many articles around in the net like Lewis Wright's Blog talking about old AJAX experience (2003). XMLHttpRequest was buggy in mozilla in 2002 like any other software. And even if there was some implementations they was unkown !
Some history
Microsoft first implemented the XMLHttpRequest object in Internet Explorer 5 for Windows as an ActiveX object. Engineers on the Mozilla project implemented a compatible native version for Mozilla 1.0 (and Netscape 7). Apple has done the same starting with Safari 1.2.
Some marketing
The positive point is that we need really more marketing compains like that. Now clients are interested in AJAX solutions, which make more business opportunities ! AJAX is like wearing 70's djeans with an Hugo Boss Shoes, its just coool !
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