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AJAX in the spotlight next week and beyond
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04/21/2006, By Paul Krill
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When is a technology officially hot? Perhaps when it starts getting trade shows and other industry events named for it. If so, then AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Web application scripting technology definitely fits this description.
The Real-World AJAX Seminar is being held in California next week. Meanwhile, a two-day AJAX technical conference, AjaxWorld Conference & Expo, is planned for this October.
Consultant Jesse James Garrett, who invented the term AJAX in 2005, will be speaking about what he describes as the AJAX "phenomenon" at the San Jose seminar. Garrett is director of user experience strategy and a co-founder of Adaptive Path, which he categorizes as a product strategy firm.
"What has happened since I coined the term AJAX [is] there has been this enormous groundswell of activity among independent designers and developers taking up this concept and running with it," Garrett said. "One of the really [special] things about AJAX is that it's not a technology platform that was handed down from on high by some vendor, but it's this loose collection of browser-native technologies that the interest in which has really come from the bottom up."
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