AJAX is evil
One of the talks whilst I was at the UK PHP Conference was on AJAX, and its downfalls. The talk was done by Harry Fuecks, someone whose opinion is respected within the online community. I've always been a bit wary of 'new' technologies when they surface, and the mad rush to implement them as they are 'cool'. Ajax is not exceptionally new. Internet Explorer was the first browser to implement the XMLHttpRequest protocol as an ActiveX object, way back in IE 5 circa 1999. However, its only been the recent use by certain big sites such a Google and Amazon that have made it more mainstream in the rush to implement it.
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