From: Jamis Buck <jamis_buck@...>
Date: 2005-02-26T21:59:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications

On 16:25 Sat 26 Feb     , gabriele renzi wrote:
> Mathieu Bouchard ha scritto:
> 
> 
> >>Which raises an obvious question: does it cleans any better under its 
> >>new moniker?
> >
> >
> >I have a question for you. Do you also know all the other Ajaxes, and why
> >not phone Colgate-Palmolive and tell them to change the name of their
> >product? I mean, here's a list for you:
> >
> >  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax
> 
> well, the point is that people have been using XmlHTTPRequest for more 
> than 5 years, IIRC, so this kind of "I'll name my discovering" sounds 
> somewhat inappropriate.

Innapropriate or not, it's certainly easier to talk about "Ajax" than
"that technique that uses XMLHttpRequest to send asynchronous requests
to the server via Javascript without having to reload the page."
That's the point, I think--not that something new has been discovered,
but that a label has been given to that thing to make it easier to
discuss. I'd even go so far as to posit that the reason Ajax has taken
so long to really start gaining attention is because there's not been
an easy way to talk about it.

Think about design patterns. Most people agree that these are good
things. However, most of these patterns are not new--it's just that
they've recently been given names to facilitate discussion about them.

When you give something a name, you can define and then hide an entire
host of assumptions behind it. That's where the value comes from.

- Jamis

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