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May 02, 2005
Ajax versus Smart Clients
It turns out gmail is an example of a client app using XMLHTTPRequest, an approach advocated by this blogger for providing richer client apps.
Well, it appears that the XMLHTTPRequest approach is gaining some ground. It and other standard technologies like CSS and DOM, are being used in combination in a methodology called Ajax that is delivering some of the same promises that Smart Clients are supposed to bring. If you’ve seen Google’s mail service or Google Maps, you’ve seen just what it can do.
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Posted on May 2, 2005 04:28 AM by gmail178.
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