November 2007 Archives

So there is a wide world of tools and methods for "web 2.0", and for developers it is hard to know which one to chose to use and support.  I have tinkered with two AJAX toolkits and found things that I liked and disliked with them.  But overall I found that they were both too big and too feature rich for simple use.

So it occured to me that for some of my simple projects all I needed was bare-bone functionality, meaning the ability to fetch the contents of a given url.  Beyond that I can do what I need in small simple javascript.  I didn't need fancy event handling, or animation, or auto-complete drop downs, or such.  And if I did, then I could probably do that my self later, as long as I had the ability to easily fetch a URL.