Published on 2005-12-26 20:15:52
SACK, or Simple AJAX Code Kit, is a wrapper class designed to make using AJAX simpler, and easy to implement. Another AJAX implementation, written by Gregory Wild-Smith and released under a Modified X11 licence.
I’ve seen AJAX solutions like SAJAX or Dojo, and they haven’t really interested me. They seem to bloated and, for the most part, rather insecure. This is mostly because they appear to be trying to do things with AJAX that it can do, but should it? Sometimes I feel AJAX is like Dinosaur cloning in Jurassic park — as Ian Malcolm said they “were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
Anyhow, as I’m using AJAX a lot these days — both for side projects and at work — I thought I would develop a nice simple wrapper for it that does exactly what I want from it; namely to be easy to use, yet very flexible in implementation.
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