Ajax Search is Over

I have settled on ASP.NET AJAX 1.0. Why you ask? Well for many reasons! One, it is written well. Lacks all the visual effects, but seriously, who needs those? It is fast, as it uses JSON, and that is a MAJOR surprise, as I figured M$ would be all over using XML. Secondly, if you pair it up with PHP for Microsoft AJAX it just flat out works nicely and costs little effort to write scripts for!

I wrote a few sample scripts using it in less than 5 minutes! 5 minutes!! I cannot stress that enough. I was amazed at the type of complexity I could write in just a few minutes of using it. Now, I am not a “big” M$ fan, but I am willing to give credit when due, and they deserve credit for this. I am truly pleased with the fact it works in Firefox, it works in IE, and it probably works in Opera (though I haven’t tested it). It has files for all languages, to handle currencies, dates, etc. Totally amazing.

I have so many plans on how to use this to perform more advance functionality in several of my applications and best of all, I didn’t have to write my own XmlHttpRequest methods.