AJAX

I’ve not that hard a look at AJAX, but this post shared by Roberto Scoble caught my eye. The crux of the post is looking at a new AJAX bases platform, a company called Morfik. From what I read it does push the boundaries as to what can be don within the browser sandbox:

the crux of it is that Morfik uses 100% Ajax and renders in the native browser. Whereas all the other platforms use non-native browser plug-ins (like Flash) or render outside the browser. Adobe’s Apollo and Laszlo both largely output in Flash (a browser plug-in) and Microsoft’s WPF renders outside the browser.

Also, while Google is Java  heavy   (no offense intended) for their UI’s, Morfik:

allows developers to use high-level programming languages (which give the developer more power – e.g. BASIC, C#, Pascal) to create web apps. It does this by converting apps from high level language INTO Ajax code.

This is great news. As a VB /C# Developer, it might just make ASP.Net 2.0 fade into the background as far as UI is concerned.

I’ll be watching.