[spacecadet]

What do you mean? It's everywhere, but like the author said, 'in a perfect world', really, most of the time you don't notice it.

'we' use angular on our project and it does this by 'default'.

i.e. the HTML/CSS always loads right away while the dynamic content is loading in the placeholders, which in turn are the elements themselves that will be used.

This article seems dated, 2000? I haven't worked on an AJAX app since that time, at least one with pinwheels and white pages...

[dhbanes]

You haven't worked on an AJAX app since 2000?

[eterm]

I'd take his comment with a pinch of salt, that is years before ajax applications were even mainstream.

gmail wasn't even released until 2004, and that was probably the first mass-market application that really unleashed the full power of ajax and made people stand up and notice.

[spacecadet]

What's your point with gmail? It wasn't the first AJAX app- Building HTML/PHP websites and using file uploads to a server allowed clients to edits web sites asynchronously. This is clearly before your time.

[fryguy]

XMLHttpRequest wasn't around yet, but there were certainly ways of doing AJAXy things before GMail was popular with things like invisible refreshing iframes. I worked on such an app around 2001-2002.

[spacecadet]

No I mean the way it was written sounded dated, 2000-ish. If you did a tiny bit of research you'd know. But you'd rather fire off a 1 liner response.

[adambratt]

I meant using the content placeholders like Facebook does.