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Utopian AJAX
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04/22/2006, By web2.0-blog.com
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Not very long ago, I wrote an article called The AJAX Sham and it was fairly critical of the way in which AJAX is used today. Not necessarily the technology but more why sites are using AJAX and how marketing types have attached themselves to the term incorrectly. Given that article I thought I should try and balance things a bit by explaining how I think AJAX should be used and why many services are missing an opportunity with the technology.
As I exlained in the earlier article, there are many sites that are using XML just for the sake of it. They aren’t actually utilising the features of XML, its ust being used as an easy to manage middleman between the Javascript and the Database. The problem with this is that the true potential of XML is not being utilised. In fact, some of the features are being subverted in order for XML to fit into this new Web 2.0 framework.
XML has gained such a strong following in the IT world because of its extensible nature, the simple human readable format and the fact that it adds a level of semantics to the data. In many AJAX implementations none of these features are being used. Thats like buying a car and using it as a table, its just such a waste. So how can we put these features to work in our AJAX implementations?
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