XMLHttpRequest POST request on Gecko

Dave Cramer davec-zxk95TxsVYDyHADnj0MGvQC/G2K4zDHf at public.gmane.org
Thu Oct 26 12:16:05 UTC 2006


On 26-Oct-06, at 1:39 AM, Stephen Allen wrote:

> Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
>> On Wednesday 25 October 2006 19:50, Stephen Allen wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>>> No kidding - That's what Flex is all about, it's here now. :)
>>>
>> I am quite impressed. But not entirely. Ajax is free, Flex is not.  
>> And Flex produces Flash files, not web pages. The direction in  
>> which Adobe (Macromedia) goes does not surprise - even earlier  
>> versions of Flash (around 3, certainly 4) had a way to communicate  
>> with HTTP server, retrieve data, and display accordingly. Still,  
>> it seems, Flex communicates through HTTP server?
>
> Yes it does. There are some good developer blogs around if you're  
> interested.
>
> You were talking about accessing a remote database without a  
> browser -- That's a RIA and Flex is going places were AJAX can't.
Where is this going that AJAX can't ?
>
> Unfortunately it's not free, but not everything in this world can  
> be free and/or opensource. Sometimes one has to compromise. Besides  
> there is nothing in the OSS area that can compete.<shrug>
>
> Adobe is gaining an increasing awareness of OSS as per the  
> development of the Flash player for Linux. About time is all I can  
> say; Adobe wants Flex to run on all platforms with the same user  
> experience. Ambitous, but I believe they'll pull it off.
>
> I"m excited about Flex and Apollo, and I'm seeing a lot of interest  
> in RIAs now, and it's only going to increase going forward. If one  
> is a web developer, this is a genre that one shouldn't ignore IMO.
>
> AJAX, blah. What's old is new again.
>
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