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03-09-2006, 15:15
As Web developers know, other than the clever acronym AJAX(asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is not all that new. 'We had a group inside YAHOO! working on AJAX applications for years before they were called AJAX,' says Ash Patel, chief product officer for YAHOO! Recently it flexed that AJAX muscle, releasing four new Web services APIs with a distinct AJAX bent. In 2004, YAHOO! acquired Oddpost a group of developers who were working on applications going beyond the static HTML back-and-forth server calls by using JavaScript and XML to get a desktop look and feel for Web-based applications. Patel points to the recently released Yahoo! Mail beta as a culmination of Oddpost pre-AJAX work. 'It has the look and feel of a desktop application with drag-and-drop and features you expect on the desktop,' he said. In support of developers seeking to build their own AJAX applications on YAHOO!, Patel points to the YAHOO! DEVELOPER NETWORK that includes an online AJAX API REFERENCE Manual. It offers developer tips and code samples for working with the APIs. Patel presented YAHOO!'s latest on AJAX at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego where he announced the company is releasing four new WEB SERVICES APIs. He added this is part of the YAHOO! commitment to open its APIs to developers. Two of the APIs being released are for the CALENDARING and PHOTO SHARING features on the YAHOO! Website, which Patel called the top applications in those two fields. Rounding out the four APIs will be ones for the MY WEB SEARCH ENGINE and YAHOO!'s SHOPPING APPLICATIONS.
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