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Originally Posted by micker
come on, you cannot tell me that after years of using mapquest, you weren't blown away the first time you used google maps?
AJAX is about giving the user a more responsive environment that improves their experience with a website.
Every big player in the tech world is throwing everything they have into AJAX development because the numbers speak for themselves. Users prefer more responsive websites. They like interactivity. It's not about dragging pinups around on the screen, I'm sure someone will try that, but thats not what this is about.
In my opinion, AJAX, and in a larger part, the whole Web 2.0 movement isnt about design or dragging girls or anything that minor, its about finally recognizing the web as an independent media type. Since the start of the web, developers and designers have treated it as if it were either print media or TV, or some combination of the two... It's not. It is something entirely different and needs to be treated and developed for as such. It's my hope that all these new technologies people are calling Web 2.0 will accomplish that.
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The idea of Ajax was to treat webpages like an actual application. No waiting for pages to reload for settings to change, etc. People are going to far with Ajax, it has its place, such as a backend for databases. I have written some Ajax code for wordpress that allows users to drag and drop posts into their 'favorites'. That's a neat idea, but for the most part, with galleries, etc, I feel it's a bit overkill.