[K12OSN] Web based Student Information Systems?
Jim McQuillan
jam at mcquil.com
Tue Jan 16 04:44:09 UTC 2007
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
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