Ajax – A revolution or just another old thing?

Ajax is in the news again, however it is not the football team making news this time around.
Ajax also stands for Asynchronous JavaScript+ XML and can be used with any web development platform : .NET , Java/J2EE, PHP , Perl or any other server-side deployment. Ajax is not a technology in itself; rather, it is a term that refers to the use of a group of technologies together to create interactive web applications.
Ajax uses a combination of the following:
- HTML (or XHTML) and CSS for presenting information
- The Document Object Model manipulated through JavaScript to dynamically display and interact with the information presented
- The XMLHttpRequest object to exchange data asynchronously with the web server. (XML is commonly used, although any format will work, including preformatted HTML, plain text, JSON and even EBML)
Ajax is just old stuff wrapped up in a new buzzword. Granted, it is a cool buzzword (especially to European football fans), but it is hardly revolutionary. Microsoft developers have utilized the conceptual foundation of Ajax for years to create data-centric applications on the web. In some sense, Microsoft has moved beyond this to the next great thing: Smart Clients.
Maybe in a few years when Smart Clients is mainstream, we will have another buzzword named after some other European soccer club. Liverpool is my all-favorite soccer team (oh, to relive the days of Kevin Keegan--exactly 100 goals in just 323 appearances before leaving Liverpool) and
I think Liverpool should be the new buzzword for Smart Clients. What do you think?
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