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AJAX Everywhere

In November I had the chance to speak with developers at the JavaOne Japan event on AJAX. In Japan, there is a strong interest in AJAX and from some conversations with developers and companies following the conference I realized that AJAX really is a global phenomenon.

Last week I had the chance to speak at Apple with some of the developers from the Apple Store about AJAX and to my surprise I found out that they are already using AJAX on their production site. If you configure the options of a Mac notice you no longer have a page refresh as the total cost is estimated on the left side bar.

This is a great example of using AJAX to enhance the user experience. Please note that I'm not selling Macs here nor do I own any Apple stock.

Currently, I am in Bangkok, Thailand to speak at the Sun Tech Days 2006 Bangkok. Registration at this event is said to be around 1800 people and James Gosling will be speaking so it should be a fun event. Stay tunned for more.

If you are more interested in AJAX and you are in the Bay Area I will be speaking at the Silicon Valley Chapter of the ACCU on February 8th on the BluePrints for AJAX running on Glassfish. Please come if you get a chance.

Comments

• Yea, small things like that make the experience for the user. Sad lots of places & developers don't grasp that yet.

  Posted by: olsonje on January 23, 2006 at 07:07 AM

• What's truly sad is that we're still being directed to JavaScript as a way to enhance the user experience. Dogs return to their own vomit, and web develers keep on going back to junky JavaScript and DHTML tricks. Greg mentions autocomplete, something that's been around a lot longer than the web. An updated price? whoopty do. Yes, it makes good old web apps a little more usable, but really we have lowered our standards haven't we? Try to image yourself ten years ago...what would you think if you were shown a clip of the future in which you were proud of creating an autocomplete? Most would just give up, seeing that we had made scant progress in 10 years.

  I only hope that XAML or something will rescue us.

  Posted by: tcowan on January 25, 2006 at 07:31 AM

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