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A Compelling Ajax Discussion in New York City
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03/14/2006, By Dion Hinchcliffe
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Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path, who originally coined the term, gave an excellent overview of Ajax in his keynote, The Elements of User Experience. Noting that it was "time to lay the groundwork for the next stage of the development of the Web", he discussed how the term Ajax came about and then went over a lot of the thinking that went into makes Ajax what it is. He also described how Bruce Sterling recently described Ajax as "roller skates for the Web" since Ajax software is generally seamless and continuous instead of stop-start, discrete steps (page loads). He went on to note that roller skates, just like in real life, aren't appropriate in all situations. There was plenty of other good observations from Jesse including that one of the biggest strengths of Ajax is that it doesn't belong to any corporation or browser vendor, it belongs to all of us and "there is a sense of manifest destiny" with it. All in all, a quite a visionary piece from a visionary Web evangelist.
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