Comments on: ColourMod Is Not AJAX http://colourmod.com/blog/2005/11/14/colourmod-is-not-ajax/ Colouring Your World Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:02:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: ColourMod http://colourmod.com/blog/2005/11/14/colourmod-is-not-ajax/#comment-82 Sun, 04 Dec 2005 01:33:48 +0000 http://colourmod.com/blog/2005/11/14/colourmod-is-not-ajax/#comment-82 I beg to differ. AJAX, the acronym of a certain method of programming, stands for Asynchronous Javascript and XML. While much of this method uses XHTML, Javascript and modifying the DOM the final component refers to the XMLHttpRequest object that allows the exchange of data asynchronously with the server. So true AJAX is not AJAX without some kind of asynchronous interaction with a server. ColourMod does not do this. I beg to differ. AJAX, the acronym of a certain method of programming, stands for Asynchronous Javascript and XML. While much of this method uses XHTML, Javascript and modifying the DOM the final component refers to the XMLHttpRequest object that allows the exchange of data asynchronously with the server. So true AJAX is not AJAX without some kind of asynchronous interaction with a server. ColourMod does not do this.

]]> by: Douglas http://colourmod.com/blog/2005/11/14/colourmod-is-not-ajax/#comment-81 Sun, 04 Dec 2005 00:53:00 +0000 http://colourmod.com/blog/2005/11/14/colourmod-is-not-ajax/#comment-81 Sorry, but... it is, Adaptive Path just didn't have their finger on the right definition, though they were onto something. The definition given by Paul Graham is a better one, to quote him: "One ingredient of its meaning is certainly Ajax, which I can still only just bear to use without scare quotes. Basically, what "Ajax" means is "Javascript now works." And that in turn means that web-based applications can now be made to work much more like desktop ones." And ColourMod is very much Javascript working, if you compare it to the flashing blobs following your mouse around which we got in Web 1.0. Douglas Sorry, but… it is, Adaptive Path just didn’t have their finger on the right definition, though they were onto something. The definition given by Paul Graham is a better one, to quote him:

“One ingredient of its meaning is certainly Ajax, which I can still only just bear to use without scare quotes. Basically, what “Ajax” means is “Javascript now works.” And that in turn means that web-based applications can now be made to work much more like desktop ones.”

And ColourMod is very much Javascript working, if you compare it to the flashing blobs following your mouse around which we got in Web 1.0.

Douglas

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