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As IBM Jumps On Board, There's Just No Stopping AJAX Now

AJAX Will Define the Entire i-Technology Year In 2006
By Jeremy Geelan
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February 2, 2006 06:15 AM EST
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This spirit, shown by Yakov Fain, of the "i-Technology reality check" informs AJAX Developer's Journal - launched just last month by SYS-CON Media as an online/digital magazine.

The editor-in-chief of the magazine, Ron Gonda (pictured), is cautious about over-estimating AJAX:
"AJAX offers many advantages over traditional HTML applications, but we shouldn't overestimate it. Because the data is JavaScript-driven, one of the main drawbacks is that search engines won't index any of the dynamically generated content. It's definitely not SEO-friendly."
What Gonda emphasizes, on the other hand, is what the Web-world has already come to recognize: namely that AJAX greatly improves load time.

"For example, imagine a typical site," Gonda explains. "It has a design frame and content in the center area. Every click has to reload the entire frame to update the content. Ideally, you wouldn't have to transfer the code for the frame and download any of its graphic components again. Caching certainly helps, but AJAX can make it even faster."

Simply put, Gonda adds, "AJAX creates a better user experience on your site."

"AJAX is extremely fast, secure, and allows for advanced functionality that synchronous HTML does not."

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Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the all-new International Cloud Computing Expo series, of the International Virtualization Expo series, of AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo series, and of the long-running SOAWorld Conference & Expo series. He's founder of Cloud Computing Journal, Web 2.0 Journal, AJAX & RIA Journal and other leading SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV.

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Andrew 03/06/06 12:48:30 PM EST

I would like to know what Mr. Yakov try to say when he said to return to good old fat Java clients.
Thanks.