AJAX or the Web v2.0
AJAX, or Asyncronous Javascript and XML is more and more know as the next version of the web. For sure that a web interface that do not refresh itself when browsing from a page to an other is an better experience that a flash, that half the time is more than 3 seconds.
This kind of interface is used now on web application, like google mail, but it is possible to propagate this on existing websites? There is more to consider than the user experience on major websites, for sure. Even user experience may be to re-consider, like web history even the only fact that web users are used to a flash when they click on a link. My preoccupation is more for web bots, or crawler, they not "click" on links, they just browse it, so if all the links are hidden, we must think about a way for them to crawl a site.
More to come, when I will find it... maybe it is just a duplicated path (not content), only for crawlers?
-f.