[ILUG] OT : Web Chess

[Justin Mason]

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Cian Cullinan writes:
> On 6/10/05, Bryan O'Donoghue <typedef at eircom.net> wrote:
> > AJAX ?
> 
> I wondered that too. Apparently some sort of javascript/xml thingy
> that sits between you and the web server making things seem much more
> zippy. A nice simple explanation with diagrams:
> 
> http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php
> 
> Does anyone on the list use this? What's the development overhead like
> compared to doing regular ol' web-browser/web-server applications?

well, development overhead: of course, it's more work, so there's
more overhead ;)

but it's a nice technology and enables some really great features.
Google Maps is a great demo of the kind of stuff it enables.
Really, don't think about it in terms of "work" -- think about
it in terms of how nifty the resulting app is!

http://www.rubyonrails.org/ is the current hot AJAX framework.

- --j.
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