Monday, October 16, 2006

AJAX Revisited

Okay...so AJAX doesn't totally suck. Everyone's doing it so it can't be wrong right? It still drives me crazy that developers have to test with several different browsers because they are not completely compatible. I wonder if this will always be an issue.

There is one area in which AJAX makes a huge positive impact on web development. I'm talking of course about the dreaded back button. By using AJAX calls developers of real web applications can now avoid all of the headaches that the back button used to cause.

...and there was much rejoicing...