Web 2.0 vs Web 1.0: Why Ajax is Conceptually Better

"The potential of the Semantic Web is just unimaginably huge"

Ajax has been around for quite some time now and it has lovers and haters. First of all let’s distinguish between two different things that are often confused when we talk about Ajax. What many think to be Ajax are really two independent things:

• Asynchronous Communication: allows fetching and sending data asynchronously, in the background.
• DOM-Manipulation: which allows all those fancy Flash-like effects on web pages, such as zooming images, floating windows, but also really basic stuff, like swapping text in boxes.

If we want to split hairs there is a third thing that makes up those Web 2.0 applications: a logic layer, which takes care of the execution of the application.
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