Why Is Ajax a Paradigm Shift? On the Road to RIAs
Ajax does in fact represent a paradigm shift for some people (even most people, given what
most webapps are today) because it can fundamentally change the way you develop a
webapp. More important perhaps is that it represents a paradigm shift for the user, and in fact
it is the user who will drive the adoption of Ajax. Believe me; you can no longer ignore Ajax as
a tool in your toolbox.
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Put a non-Ajax webapp in front of users, and then put that same app using Ajax techniques
in front of them, and guess which one they are going to want to use all day nine times
out of ten? The Ajax version! They will immediately see the increased responsiveness of the
application and will notice that they no longer need to wait for a response from the server
while they stare at a spinning browser logo wondering if anything is actually happening. They
will see that the application alerts them on the fly of error conditions they would have to wait
for the server to tell them about in the non-Ajax webapp. They will see functionality like typeahead
suggestions and instantly sortable tables and master-detail displays that update in real
time??”things that they would not see in a non-Ajax webapp.
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