What’s new is the prominent use of these techniques in real-world applications to change the fundamental interaction model of the web. Ajax is taking hold now because these technologies and the industry’s understanding of how to deploy them most effectively have taken time to develop.
Which are limitations of ajax?
What are the security issues with ajax?
What is ajaxcontrol toolkit?
Don't be too quick to dump your plugin or applet based portions of your application. While ajax and dhtml can do drag and drop and other advanced user interfaces there still limitations especially when it comes to browser support. Plugins and applets have been around for a while and have been able to make ajax like requests for years. Applets provide a great set of ui components and apis that provide developers literally anything.
What is the use of the scriptmanager control in ajax? : asp.net ajax
Is ajax just another name for xmlhttprequest?
Are there any security issues with ajax?
How to send an ajax request in javascript?
Some of the google examples you cite don't use xml at all. Do I have to use xml and/or xslt in an ajax application?
Did adaptive path invent ajax? Did google? Did adaptive path help build google's ajax applications?
Which are the knowledge requirements for personal ajax functionality?
How do I abort the current xmlhttprequest?
How do I provide internationalized ajax interactions?
What are the browser versions that ajax is compatible with?
