Posted by Andy Dingley on 12/04/61 11:22

On 26 Jul 2005 03:51:53 -0700, "Travis Newbury"
<TravisNewbury@hotmail.com> wrote:

>For me, the jury is still out on AJAX.

The jury has already decided - maybe you don't agree.

>I am finding very little advantage
>over doing the same thing with Flash.

It's the difference between semantically-aware HTML and a <table> full
of text rendered as bitmaps. They both work, but one is an opaque pipe
that only works when connected to one particular endpoint. The other is
a transparent pipeline where you can swap components around in the
future.

One nice thing you can do with AJAX is to handle business logic with it.
You can describe business logic and run it on the server. Then you can
take this same description and use it to generate an AJAX client app
that emulates the same behaviour client-side. Or even better, you can
have a transparent client query the server from within the page, so as
to use the server to actually execute the logic. You could do this with
Flash (and friends) too, but you'd have to do three implementations.

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