An increasing number of Web applications take advantage of JavaScript, style sheets, and Dynamic HTML to make them much more robust. The buzzword for this is AJAX (which stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), and the kinds of things developers are doing with it are amazing. Consider the alternative interface that Yahoo! has been showing for Yahoo! Mail. Based on technology acquired when Yahoo! purchased Oddpost, it runs entirely in a browser, but feels like a desktop mail program. This is the most powerful Web mail interface we’ve seen so far,
but Google’s Gmail, which many people already use, is another great AJAX application. I’m also a huge fan of Google Earth (formerly Keyhole), which uses satellite data to let you find just about anything on Earth via the
Web. Its integration with Google Local is nothing short of spectacular. And now that it’s free, there’s no reason not to try it out.
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