The statement "This just goes to show, patenting every idea you ever have..." just seemed to imply that you were the first with the idea. My apologies if I perceived it the wrong way. I certainly don't claim that I was the first either. I was just a code monkey at the time, but Coach may well have been. He was a runner up in the MIT Entrepreneur competition in 1999 for this project.
http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/185642.htm Realizing that you're ahead of the curve: I don't doubt that many of us have a few "might have beens" in our careers. There are few among us, however, who would have realized the value of an "Internet", like Al Gore did. :) On 7/27/06, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, July 27, 2006 11:59 am, Monkeyden wrote: > You may have a battle with my former co-worker, Coach Wei at Nexaweb, to > lay > claim to the first "Ajax-like" application. He is widely referred to as > an > Ajax pioneer. We were doing this in '99-2000 and he was well into it > before > I got involved. I'm not really sure where I said anything like that... could you point it out? I can tell you that I did write an application in the '99-2000 timeframe as well that was definitely "Ajax-like"... most of the application was client-side and loaded once initially, and requests after that were made targetting a hidden frame. The responses were XML, which were then parsed and the UI updated based on that data. The server never rendered anything other than XML after that initial load. I'm sure I described that application somewhere. Is that what your referring to perhaps? In any case, that is in *no way* trying to lay claim to anything, other than the fact that I was playing with these kinds of ideas years ago, as were many other people. Had I connected those ideas with clean products I might now be famous :) But I didn't. I have no problem believing others did even more advanced things than I did, even back then. Frank --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
