{"id":23,"date":"2007-10-24T12:44:22","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T18:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/24\/the-next-version-should-be-more-ajaxie\/"},"modified":"2007-10-31T09:04:50","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T15:04:50","slug":"the-next-version-should-be-more-ajaxie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/24\/the-next-version-should-be-more-ajaxie\/","title":{"rendered":"“The next version should be more AJAXie.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

My business partner and I were recently discussing the next edition of our healthcare web platform. Instinctively, Akash said that, “The next version should be more AJAXie.” I replied with a, “Sure we can do that… what exactly do you mean?”<\/p>\n

We jumped into LiveMeeting where Akash showed me the web based CRM software he was using.<\/p>\n

“See how when I mouse over these items, a menu pops up,” said Akash, “Can we do that?”<\/p>\n

“Sure,” I said, “though that isn’t AJAX.”<\/p>\n

“Ah. Well, see how this form has a tabbed interface. Is that AJAX?”<\/p>\n

“Nope,” I said, “but we can do that too.”<\/p>\n

“Well,” said Akash, “how about this, when someone requests a report and it displays a ‘Please Wait’ note on the screen while the report is being generated. Is that AJAX?”<\/p>\n

“Maybe,” I said, “though again you could do that without AJAX as well.”<\/p>\n

“Ahh,” said Akash.<\/p>\n

I first used AJAX-like techniques in 1998 in a web based version of Galcon<\/a>. Since then I haven’t. Haven’t had the need for it. And as this conversation realizes, even the term AJAX is unclear to fairly technical people – it has become a synonym for “nifty”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My business partner and I were recently discussing the next edition of our healthcare web platform. Instinctively, Akash said that, “The next version should be more AJAXie.” I replied with a, “Sure we can do that… what exactly do you mean?” We jumped into LiveMeeting where Akash showed me the web based CRM software he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biz","category-javascript"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}