If people don't notice a new technology that can boost the perfomance without the extra cost, it might be "Mottainai".
Until now, a name "Ajax" only reminds me a pro-football team in Amsterdam or name of a cleaning material brand.
Today A blog introduced Ajax as an leading technology, which stands for "Asynchronous JavaScript + XML". However it's not that new because Ajax is a grand sum of conventional technologies such as XHTML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XMLHttpRequest. So it's not a newcomer, but a revival.
But don't look it down. I'm sure you'll be impressed after looking at those sites. So let's give it a try the following sites!
Google Maps
No need comment. The first draggable map without any plugin.
Google Suggest
The candidate options are shown in pull-down menu with the hit count.
Google local
Candidate shops in the designated area shown with pop-up notes.
Visitor log for Thought of Mottainai
Using Google Map, it shows origin of last 10 visiter to my site.
A9.com
In the search result window, the relative info also come up right after checking the option box such as images, books or from wikipedia.
Amazon.com Diamond Search
As changing the search criteria, the search result comes up on the small window right away.
Kiko.com
Ajax-based online scheduler.
Protopage.com
Hard to describe, but let's say it's an online desktop!
Those are all interesting, aren't they?
Playing with those sites, you should find that the objects on screen can be moved without refreshing the whole screen. Comparing to those using like flash or Java platform, the apparent responce speed is completely faster.
I believe this technology should become a big boom next few years in web creater's field. So I can expect more performance without extra investment of hardware.
Gosh! I should sleep! It's 1:00AM here in Amsterdam.