chase's blog

Such an interesting article from Adaptive Path's Jesse Garrett today entitled "Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications" highlighting the recent trends in web apps to make them more user-friendly. This provides a good summary of the technical achievements that power the latest breed of Google apps (ie. Gmail, Google Suggest, Google Maps) without the in-depth codeline play-by-play. Brendan pointed me at Dojo, too, which is a browser toolkit that aims to provide a uniform interface to the capabilities that browsers from Firefox to Opera to IE provide.

One thing's for sure: the demonstration Google Maps provides rocks, but it's still just the tip of the iceberg of what can be done when common JavaScript techniques are coupled with the DOM and client-server RPC.