Tales from the Smart Client

http://demo.nextapp.com/echopointdemo/demo http://www.isomorphic.com/technology/testdrive.jsp Both are quite rich JS based application architectures including controls. I had seen the Isomorphic site before, but they've added a lot of good material. Thanks...

For what it's worth, I use Outlook Web Access from home and it is a pretty incredible example of what you can do with a web app. I think it demonstrates that you could write parts of Office in "Ajax", but I continue to maintain that there are browser...

Discusses HTML, Laszlo, Ajax etc.

Mary Jo Foley writes about it. I recently saw a WSJ article about Ajax which speculated that someone would soon write an Office competitor in Ajax. Uh...where do I start? Ajax is fundamentally limited by its components: HTML and Javascript (I'll give...

This post pretty much includes the one it is responding too.

Off the original article on Ajax is a very interesting discussion of how Google Map s works. Worth the read...but keep in mind...the Dog didn't talk very well.

About time

CNET has a lengthy piece on Ajax responding to the WSJ article. I agree with David Temkin: "The successors to Word and Excel and Powerpoint are not going to be written this way. It's just not going to happen."

If you haven't seen the Incredibles you may not get it. If you have, be sure to stick through the credits and hear the Flash Song. FlashAndSparkle

In response to my Ajax rants, Mark Finkel points out browsers can do rich graphics using SVG and VML. Frankly, this is the direction the web needs to head. I am a big fan of these vector graphics formats (my friend Richard See and I launched Visio's SVG...

Another worth a second look: the Road Runner portal , all done on the Flash runtime.