AJAX - A good method for web apps
October 7th, 2005
AJAX is a method of creating more desktop-like web applications. In the future (and even now), many websites/ web applications will act more and more like desktop applications. Google maps is a good example of this… (search for more AJAX Examples ). More and more you will see websites that rival the functionality of desktop applications. This is good, its quick and “on demand” distribution of your application. No need to download and install the application to your hard disk to get the functionality you need. All thats required is a powerful enough computer and an Internet connection. It is a typical thin client (meaning the browser) / server model. Ajax helps balance the processing load between the client and server efficiently. You have the speed of processing locally and the large data store of information via the server.
I found the .NET libraries and I look forward to seeing what I can do with this!
Ajax.NET - The free library for .NET (C#)
