Many of the sites I am using are already AJAX

Websites like Amazon, the 43* sites (43 Things, 43 People, 43 Places, All Consuming, Lists of Bests), Digg, Yahoo, Google, and so forth have been AJAX for a pretty long time - looking back.

And it really has not been all that long since the first articles came out mentioning AJAX.


AJAX has caught on faster than most computing technologies I can recall, save HTML itself.

Part of the reason for that rapid adoption was the web was already dry tinder, just waiting for the spark that was AJAX.

People already wanted a fast, powerful, breathtaking, lightweight, easy-to-program, modeless GUI technology for web pages. Browsers already had the technology needed to pull it off too. It had been slumbering in them for years.

Flash, the way it grabs the CPU sometimes in a headlock certainly and makes bookmarking forms difficult - is not quite it, sometimes. Java applets, when they cause a delay in page loading or are difficult to weave into a page - are not quite it, sometimes. Regular HTML forms, the ultimate modal interface, sometimes are totally not it.


AJAX came along, and like Charlie in Charlie's Angels took them away from all that.

And the users?

They are happy!