Technology- ComputerWorld on Building AJAX Web Pages
The last week my blog writing has gotten stuck by the combined forces of having too many things to write about and being pretty busy. The task
of writing up my visit to Yellowstone (for a couple of hours), flight to Chicago, great dinner, weekend at the Pitchfork music festival and all
that has been too daunting to tackle.
In the meantime ComputerWorld
has an article “So how do you code an AJAX Web page?”. This article may be just fine but it turned clueless pretty quickly by saying
“Beyond the XMLHTTP Request object, which has been around for several years as a solution looking for a problem”.
This is just completely opposite the real history of XMLHTTP Request. Part of the what made this whole thing so cool was that it was an object
fined tuned to solve a really specific problem- creating really dynamic data centric web pages. In other words, what we call Web 2.0 or AJAX nowadays
although we were not slick enough to coin any cool terms for it. Sure, there are plenty of things that could have been done better with it,
but its one of the few examples of any web technology developed post-1996 that was actually developed by an application team just filling in a missing
hole in the platform.
The calendar feed of the day is the US Music Festival schedule.
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