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I love that direction. Recently stumbled upon "Microsoft Ajax Minifier" which is a prime example of the old way of naming things. What does compressing files ha
by emp_ 12y ago
I love that direction. Recently stumbled upon "Microsoft Ajax Minifier" which is a prime example of the old way of naming things. What does compressing files have anything to do with async requests? At some point they were just giving the AJAX name to anything javascript related, without thinking or to not have "Java" appear in naming conventions.
- paulirish 12y ago> At some point they were just giving the AJAX name to anything javascript related They shipped the ASP.NET Ajax Control Toolkit back in ~2008, when "Ajax" was generally synonymous with "JavaScript". Google's CDN was called the "AJAX Libraries CDN" until just a few years ago. It happens.
- BigChiefSmokem 12y agoAs I recall, the ASP.NET Ajax Control Toolkit did just that - it enabled AJAX functionality in WebForms. Also, JavaScript is a first-class citizen in WinRT so I'm sure Oracle is getting some money from Microsoft for the brand.
- girvo 12y agoI... I must be silly, but what does Oracle have to do with it?
- xtrumanx 12y agoJavaScript is a trademark owned by Oracle. They got it when they bought Sun. I don't think that they can capitalize on that trademark now though.
- mark-r 12y agoFor a moment I thought you were confusing Java with Javascript, but I see you're right. I hope this link is persistent: http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:agdawj.2.2 http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:agd...
- Pxtl 12y agoMost of the commonly-used functionality in Ajax Control toolkit were things like the date-picker, various animated widgets, and making the deployment guy scream and pull his hair out. The actual ajax-side of it was rarely used, in my experience.