[K12OSN] Web based Student Information Systems?

[Jim McQuillan]

Vince Callaway wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 20:03 -0700, rmcdaniel at indata.us wrote:
>   
>> 2.) Does the new system use AJAX to prevent complete screen updates? 
>> Huh, what's AJAX...
>>     
>
> Ajax has its uses.  And it is not a microsoft thing.  It also has
>   
Actually, AJAX should be considered a Microsoft thing.  At the core of 
AJAX is a function called 'XMLHttpRequest', which started life as 
'XMLHTTP', which was written by....  Microsoft.  (Even Microsoft can 
have a few good ideas)

Take a look at the history of AJAX on the wikipedia article:

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX

> detractors as well.  Not sure I would bet the farm that it will become
> widely used in the long term.
>   
"widely used" ???  Google, Yahoo and a whole bunch of other large 
companies are doing massive development around AJAX.  I'd say it's 
widely used now, and will become even more so.

I dislike Microsoft just as much as anybody on this list, but I really 
do like AJAX.  I'm doing some incredibly cool cross-platform GUI 
programming using AJAX and it would have been far more difficult (damned 
near impossible) without AJAX.


Jim McQuillan
jam at Ltsp.org