Comment Sometimes /. is like the PETA of lost causes (Score 1) 270
Just because something is innovative, it doesn't necessarily follow that it is in fact progressive. It's as sad as getting a black-and-white plasma TV and thinking you've got game.
AJAX is just a collection of workarounds in a fancy box. Sure, it might be good for tiny apps where you want to spare your users a few page refreshes, but unless your company name ends in *oogle or *ahoo, you'll be hard pressed finding the resources to design/develop/cross-browser-debug/maintain anything complex. It has no dedicated IDE, no modern component set, no state management (iframes == workaround), no rich media tools, no cross-browser compatibility...and that's just off the top of my head.
But hey, I love that AJAX exists, and I think everybody should use AJAX!
After all, the more anachronistic web developers who use AJAX, the fewer who will use Flex, meaning there will be that many fewer *truely* bleeding edge web applications to compete with.
All I can say is 'fight the power, you anti-proprietary, anti-flash /.ers' and leave the RIA work to us misdirected Flex developers!
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Cynicism is just arrogance wrapped in distain.
AJAX is just a collection of workarounds in a fancy box. Sure, it might be good for tiny apps where you want to spare your users a few page refreshes, but unless your company name ends in *oogle or *ahoo, you'll be hard pressed finding the resources to design/develop/cross-browser-debug/maintain anything complex. It has no dedicated IDE, no modern component set, no state management (iframes == workaround), no rich media tools, no cross-browser compatibility...and that's just off the top of my head.
But hey, I love that AJAX exists, and I think everybody should use AJAX!
After all, the more anachronistic web developers who use AJAX, the fewer who will use Flex, meaning there will be that many fewer *truely* bleeding edge web applications to compete with.
All I can say is 'fight the power, you anti-proprietary, anti-flash
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Cynicism is just arrogance wrapped in distain.
