@dhromed said:AJAX is a kludgly technique that uses pages of code in both client-side
javascript, XML files and server-side script in order to change a tiny
thing on-page without reload.
So it only pays off in bigger projects, suh as Google does with maps and mail etc.
Spoken by someone who's never used it (or at least never used it
properly), it would seem. Unless you fall for the framework approach to
everything, Ajax code does not have to be particularly large in the
client. I use it a lot, and have yet to write anything approaching the
size of, say, Sarissa. Nor (in most cases) does it actually require any
specialised code on the server (one can parse data from returned HTML
just as easily as from XML).
And, no, Google is not a developer of Ajax, just the most visible developer of Ajax-based applications.