Re: Ajax via RSP/CGIDEV2

Aaron,

Not trying to argue -- honest. I agree that blindly accepting an open
source offering would be silly, and the first thing we did when we
started using prototype was to rip it apart and see what makes it work.
Sure we'd hacked together some XMLHTTPRequest stuff, but looking at what
was done in prototype gave us a greater understanding of it, and a
better grasp on why we didn't want to implement it ourselves. As well as
adding a number of non-ajax related tricks to our toolkit.

As for the age of the technology, Outlook Web Access was one of the
early adopters of the XMLHTTPRequest object, back in the late 90's. And
there are _lots_ of installs of that application. You are absolutely
correct that it's now getting the attention it's getting because non-ie
browsers now support it rather well. But it's not like it was shelf-ware
until a year ago.

-Walden