AJAX and AFLAX: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 18:10, 3 February 2006

AJAX = "asynchronous javascript and xml"

'asynchronous' means the client can send requests to the server whenever it needs more data.
'javascript' means the client runs in any recent browser
'and' is a conjunction
'xml' is the communications protocol

The portal site for AJAX information: http://ajaxian.com/

AFLAX is like AJAX but uses FlashPlayer on the client.

From what I read on the AFLAX site I don't need to use any proprietary development tools.

Some cogent comments from an oreillynet blogger, especially from the peanut gallery, pros and cons. Note these comment refer to FlashPlayer 7...

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 http://aflax.org/
-AFLAX is like AJAX but uses FlashPlayer on the client as the scripting engine.
+AFLAX is like AJAX but uses FlashPlayer on the client.
-Using FlashPlayer means you script in ActionScript instead of JavaScript, but
-if you're like me you won't notice the differences because they are so similar.
-In theory it's not proprietary but in practice you will want to use
+From what I read on the AFLAX site I don't need to use any proprietary
-Macromedia Studio as a development environment so you have spend money.
+development tools.
-You really need FlashPlayer 8 to do AFLAX and that means waiting, since
-there is no Linux version yet.
 [http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7130?wlg=yes Some cogent comments] from an oreillynet blogger, especially from the peanut gallery, pros and cons. Note these comment refer to FlashPlayer 7...