Remote Iframe technique in that things are handled on the client side, but as we shall see differs in significant ways. That article reminded me of our earlier work on this front and sparked my interest in ajax. Part of that interest is writing this article and sharing my meager knowledge with the development community.

To my way of thinking, ajax is more a natural progression from an existing set of techniques as opposed to being something completely brand new. Yet within that progression, things are markedly different than in previous years in a couple of key areas:

• It provides a mechanism to mix and match xml with xhtml.
• It significantly reduces having to continually fetch things from a server (remote iframe scripting is reasonably comparable here).