The company which I’m working for used this technologies already in year 2000 for theyr content management system Tool1. This CMS is acctualy outdated, because of browser incompatibility, but it was there, and they developed a realy similar technologie just from scratch…

I think the big diffrence today about xhttprequest is not the technologie it self, it is the environment which is needed for this technologie. As you sead now we’v got millions of broadbandusers (about 107 million DSL connections worldwide) and we’v got browsers which are compatible enough to handle some javascript good enough to develop a crossbrowser webapplication which makes use of a little javascript….

But what I’m realy impressed about, is how easy it is to use. I just hacked a little Chat application within about 30 minutes. Just 10 lines of PHP and about 30 lines of Javascript, which actualy won’t grow that much if you like more functionality.

I think it will be especially for collaboration software a advantage, and of corse for all kind of administration interfaces, ie content management systems etc. It could also serve higher performance for applications like deviantart, where only the image paths would have to change…

But pleas don’t use it for publishing big bunchs of information without any alternative output, what of corse a lot of people have already done with printable versions…

It’s like every technology, use it at the right place and because you need it, and damn don’t use it just because its funny