Web 2.0 and Ajax Are Not The Same Thing

<p>My namesake, Dion Hinchcliffe, recently had some fun with a post titled 5 Earth-Shattering Things You Should Know About Ajax And Probably Don’t.

Maybe he had a couple of brews before writing this one, and felt quite jolly? :)

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Web 2.0 and Ajax Are Not The Same Thing

Good for a laugh. In the last week, I am even more excited about Ajax due to seeing the results on how many people have got Ajax in production, and the great feedback that I got from OSCON.

It’s not perfect. But it has the reach, and it is layered upon knowledge that most of us already have (HTML, CSS, …).

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So, is he joking about the Ajax and XML thing or what? I personally don’t like passing xml back to the client side. I don’t really care for JSON either though. I like sending back plain old JavaScript Objects.
Comment by John Christopher — October 23, 2005: Windows is dead!? That must be a joke !
Comment by Naveed — October 24, 2005

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