Monday, May 9th, 2005
Ajax Summit: Brent Ashley’s Presentation
Category: Ajax
Brent Ashley is known for Remote Scripting Resources at http://www.ashleyit.com/rs, and is an independant consultant. He also has a bunch of fun R&D side projects such as:
- blogchat.com: browser-based chat
- simplefilter.com: spam-id via SMTP proxy
Brent jumps into the Remote Scripting world of Microsoft, and talks about how this stuff was done a long, long time ago (1998!) :)
Ben and I both jumped when we saw Brent show an article written by Erik Hatcher of all people, on Remote Scripting back in the day! Go Erik! You started all of this! :)
The interesting part of the talk is getting the perspective from the Microsoft view, and how XmlHttpRequest came about due to the JVM going away.
So it is thanks to Sun sueing Microsoft that we have XHR!
Brent finishes up talking about other interesting libraries along the way:
- Avatars: quek.nl
- DomRS: Remove Scripting for DOM
- ARSCIF: A Framework for Asynchronous Remote-Script Callback Invocation
Well geez guys… why didn’t you invite me to the Summit?! Say hey to Brent for me :)
It’s funny to see the hype of Ajax hit now when we were doing this stuff years and years ago.