PUBLIC MARKS from greut with tag ajax

Cometd Bayeux is a publish/subscribe messaging system, and this has drawn some criticism that PubSub is not the most flexible paradigm for an Ajax/Comet transport.

In summary, these are my points:

1. I'm not saying Ajax is bad, I'm saying it's immature
2. I'm not saying never use Ajax, I'm saying don't use it for the sake of it, and try to avoid it for now, instead sticking to accessible alternatives

a PHB mandatory article

a talk (at Yahoo!) about High Performance Ajax Applications

video and slides on slideshare.

To illustrate how easy and straightforward writing applications for CouchDB is, we are going to build a simple todo-list application in Javascript.

for my next hour of free time.

Caching

helps making XHR nice

Protoscript is a simplified scripting language for creating Ajax style prototypes for the Web.

for jQuery or YUI, great work.