http://dmiessler.com/blog/my-first-dabble-into-ajax-dmiesslercomtime grepping intervals Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:27:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://dmiessler.com/blog/my-first-dabble-into-ajax-dmiesslercomtime/comment-page-1#comment-20915 Richard Corsale Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:35:39 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1053#comment-20915 <p>you know.. looking at this closer I think that alot of the quirks come from the rendering speed of FF or IE ( IE clearly wins out in rendering speed ) the communication from server and allowing the threaded updates of interface components will speed things up considerably though. this could be an interesting OSS project</p> you know.. looking at this closer I think that alot of the quirks come from the rendering speed of FF or IE ( IE clearly wins out in rendering speed ) the communication from server and allowing the threaded updates of interface components will speed things up considerably though. this could be an interesting OSS project

]]> http://dmiessler.com/blog/my-first-dabble-into-ajax-dmiesslercomtime/comment-page-1#comment-20536 Richard Corsale Thu, 04 Jan 2007 04:17:23 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1053#comment-20536 <p>so, heres a point that I have always failed to understand. well ok lets start from the top. </p> <ol> <li>Ajax is not new.. the word is... Iv been making these things for years it used to be called Dhtml .. however the one thing thats different. is that it uses the XMLrequest function. Thats not exactly efficient , and Ill tell you why.. you can push but not pull, using an invisible applet, you can establish a server connection that is bi directional and multi threaded outside of the browsers sandbox. I mean to be honest, I don't see the attraction when you look at the new Y! mail. its slow , awkward and yeah slow. the parts that make it work so well are the flash applets. flash also allows you to make server state connections (Tunnels). I should do something .. you know what we should colab on it, a pure play AJAX VS these 2 technologies. to underscore the performance variance.</li> </ol> so, heres a point that I have always failed to understand. well ok lets start from the top.

1. Ajax is not new.. the word is… Iv been making these things for years it used to be called Dhtml .. however the one thing thats different. is that it uses the XMLrequest function. Thats not exactly efficient , and Ill tell you why.. you can push but not pull, using an invisible applet, you can establish a server connection that is bi directional and multi threaded outside of the browsers sandbox. I mean to be honest, I don’t see the attraction when you look at the new Y! mail. its slow , awkward and yeah slow. the parts that make it work so well are the flash applets. flash also allows you to make server state connections (Tunnels). I should do something .. you know what we should colab on it, a pure play AJAX VS these 2 technologies. to underscore the performance variance.

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