Microsoft??™s Hotmail is another good example
(note that Hotmail is being supplanted by Microsoft Live Hotmail, which is the newer,
more Web 2.0??“ish version of Hotmail).
Yet another good example, shown in Figure 1-13, also comes courtesy of Google and is an
online RSS feed reader.
You may have noticed that these examples of Ajax RIAs are from Google. That is not a
coincidence. Google has done more to bring Ajax to the forefront of people??™s minds than anyone
else. They were not the first to do it, or even the best necessarily, but they certainly have
been some of the most visible examples and have really shown people what possibilities Ajax
opens up.
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Figure 1-12. Gmail, an Ajax webmail application from Google
Figure 1-13. Google Reader is a rather good Ajax-enabled RSS reader
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The Flip Side of the Coin
Ajax sounds pretty darned good so far, huh? It is not all roses in Ajax land, however, and Ajax is
not without its problems. Some of them are arguably only perceived problems, but others are
concrete.
First and foremost, in my mind at least, is accessibility.
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