Tuesday, 19th April 2005
Why the term Ajax is useful
Software design patterns are useful mainly because they provide a shared vocabulary: rather than discussing the intimate details of a three layered application architecture, we say “MVC”. Rather than describing an object that tracks your progress while looping over a collection, we say “Iterator”.
[... 152 words]The Strange Zen of JavaScript: Odd and ends. Ajax is succeeding where others failed: in making DHTML popular.
Google Maps UK! (via) That didn’t take long. I can’t wait for them to add satellite photos from Keyhole.