All the cool kids are talking about AJAX

re: All the cool kids are talking about AJAX

Julien Couvreur — Wed, 25 May 2005 03:43:58 GMT

Like Scoble mentioned, OWA is a great AJAX app (too bad it isn't as nice in Firefox as it is in IE). I would also bring up webmessenger as another example of AJAX from MS...

re: All the cool kids are talking about AJAX

michael paine — Wed, 25 May 2005 07:11:02 GMT

Over three years ago, I developed using Microsoft Web Telephony Engine which worked great with javascript DOM changes via Microsoft.XMLHTTP (AJAX) events. It would dynamically alter the voice browser's dialog via asynchronous webservice calls without the need to reload page. Name dialing using DTMF was a released feature using this techinque which worked exactly like Google Suggest but for the phone.

re: All the cool kids are talking about AJAX

michael paine — Wed, 25 May 2005 07:11:12 GMT

re: All the cool kids are talking about AJAX

Craig Humphrey — Wed, 25 May 2005 23:53:33 GMT

I seem to recall a collegue (<a href="http://www.isbn.nu/aisbn/humphreys%20aidan">Aidan Humphreys</a> - no relation) and I, did some work in 1998/1999, that used JavaScript on the page to do dynamic updates of dropdown-lists.

All using Perl CGI backend into a propretry stock tracking system.

Maybe not as well defined as AJAX, but I'm sure we weren't the first in this arena.

We were working for <a href="http://www.c-s-k.de/">CSK</a> in Frankfurt at the time (I see they're now called Imagnos), using their <a href="http://slingshot.csksoftware.com/">Slinghot</a> product.