My first article for the XML editor on Developerworks that demonstrated an animated slideshow using Ajax technologies got Slashdotted. I read the responses and they are a combination of great and nasty, as usual with Slashdot. I need to remember never to read the comments.
I have two more on Ajax coming out with that editor. The first is a overview of the three different Ajax transport technologies with examples on formats on both the client and the server. The second is an Ajax based RSS reader using both XML over XMLHttp and JSON over Script tags.
Clearly the Slashdotter have some points. Specific to the article, yes the XML transport side of the equation in this article is light. But this article concentrates on the front end and the creation of portable animations at the level usually reserved for Flash. But if you don't want to do the Flash you can do a reasonably close approximation with DHTML. Anyway, the other comments were about Ajax in the large. Apparently there are a lot of disgruntled folks who think the Web 2.0 thing is a fad and what not. Who cares? It's fun, it's interesting, and it pays the bills. You have to like that.
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