Jesse James Garrett, colui che ha introdotto il termine Ajax, ha scritto un nuovo interessato articolo su questo recente modo di realizzare le interfacce web.

Titolo: Why Ajax Matters Now

JJG è come sempre molto efficace nell’esposizione:

In the earliest days of the Web, designers chafed against the constraints of the medium. The entire interaction model of the Web was rooted in its heritage as a hypertext system: click the link, request the document, wait for the server to respond. Any designer who asked if the basic call-and-response interaction model of the Web could be defied was met with the flat answer “No.”
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