smcculloch posted on September 18, 2005 06:01
In my last couple of posts I talked about Atlas (Microsoft's implementation of AJAX) and the fact that the World of Warcraft was using AJAX on it's site. (it actually uses a 3rd party script library called Sarissa)
I just thought I would clarify a few points...
AJAX type technology has been around for quite a while now, in fact a fellow Aussie has quite a good library called Bitkraft (http://www.tiggrbitz.com/index.aspx), definately something worth checking out! He even makes mention of DotNetNuke in making adjustments to the library.
AJAX functionality will be in the next release of DotNetNuke (3.2) as an extension of the Client-API functionality already available (drag/drop etc)
- Check out the blog here for more information.
- Check out the sample site. (currently in beta)
- We do investigate other libraries and work to incorporate the best features of each, the trick with incorporate existing libraries is that they much conform to the same licensing structure as DotNetNuke.
An implementation by Microsoft is a good thing, you have to realise that the Microsoft development world (single vendor) is very different from the Java development world (multi-vendor). Some companies will only implement technology from Microsoft, so things like AJAX only gain mainstream acceptance when Microsoft implements them.