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Indeed I've seen them pick up on a lot of stuff rather quickly the past few years.Article is pretty good overall, a little sprinkling of open source frameworks would've been better as there was only one (Microsoft *cough* product placement) AJAX framework presented. I was honestly surprised because I thought it was going to be yet another page of how AJAX is the death of security, instead he presents the article to us as a knowledgeable IT crowd which is a rather nice change of pace (only commenting in one paragraph on security reminders).I think he really hit the nail on the head commeting about AJAXified pages though, the ones out there springing up that have no functionality other than through AJAX. While this MIGHT be ok in a small app or a home brew web page, doing this for anything other than a blog or a very simple application could spell death unless you have a LOT of backup and good error catching (Google is the only one good enough IMHO and even they have quirks in Gmail). It should come as no surprise though that your page needs to be designed as a normal web page or application FIRST. AJAX should only come as an afterthought and frontend bonuses, not a replacement for functionality!(spelling mistakes throughout I'm sure :p)

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