{"id":2562,"date":"2005-06-13T00:54:12","date_gmt":"2005-06-13T04:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2005\/06\/13\/ajax-creamy-goodness-rails-not-required\/"},"modified":"2005-06-13T00:54:12","modified_gmt":"2005-06-13T04:54:12","slug":"ajax-creamy-goodness-rails-not-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2005\/06\/13\/ajax-creamy-goodness-rails-not-required\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajax, creamy goodness – Rails not required…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Web technology keeps re-surfacing. Way, way back Microsoft added a feature
\ncalled XMLHTTP<\/a> to
\nIE<\/a> that went mostly ignored for a
\nlong time. Specifically What XMLHTTP did was add
\n
\nXMLHttpRequest()<\/a> so as to allow
\nJavaScript<\/a> to make a call
\nto a server and get results back without having to reload the page. It is
\npossible that it’s adoption was hampered by it’s IE only nature as well as the
\nprejudice against all things Microsoft<\/a>
\nout there. As a work around you could fake some of this with a hidden IFrame.<\/p>\n

Relatively recently Google<\/a> brought out
\nthe beta of Google
\nSuggest<\/a> and tech heads went inexplicably apeshit.
\n
\nSomeone coined<\/a> the cute acronym
\nAJAX<\/a> and it was suddenly the new black. I suppose Ajax sounds better than
\n"JavaScript derived from Microsoft innovation".<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Anyway, the folks that support Rails<\/a>
\nhave been
\nquick to
\njump on the bandwagon<\/a> and make it seem like
\nRuby on Rails<\/a>
\nis the be all and end all of Ajax applications. As a subset of OSS zealots these
\nguys really have it down to a science \ud83d\ude42 An
\n
\narticle appeared on \/.<\/a> and we are off to the races.<\/p>\n

Interestingly of course this technology turns out to be deeply supported in a
\nautomatic way in .NET 2.0<\/a>. You can
\ndownload the tools<\/a>
\nneeded to learn .NET and work with the
\ncoolness<\/a> for free. <\/p>\n

AJAX Support Libraries:<\/p>\n