Microsoft to take on AJAX with Atlas.Not to be left out of any development trends, Microsoft is working to simplify the job of building applications with AJAX, a mixture of JavaScript and XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. . The company is building software, code-named Atlas, that provides developers with tools designed to ease creation of AJAX- style applications. An early version of the software was made available to developers at the company's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. in September. A growing number of proponents argue that applications created with AJAX perform better than todays Web browserbased applications, Microsofts Atlas is a 'Web client framework' designed to make the job of building AJAX-style applications simpler, said Charles Fitzgerald Captain Charles Fitzgerald (1791–1887) was the Governor of The Gambia from 1844 until 1847, then Governor of Western Australia from 1848 to 1855. The town of Geraldton, Western Australia was named after him. , the company's general manager for platform technologies. To run applications bulk using Atlas, users will need to download a Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. add-on. "People who do [AJAX development] are rocket scientists," Fitzgerald said. 'In some ways this papers over the mess that is JavaSript development. It's easy-td-build 'Spaghetti' code." Atlas, which is a downloadable piece of JavaScript code--gives developers a more structured environment for building applications, providing time-saving services such as an object model and debugging (programming) debugging - The process of attempting to determine the cause of the symptoms of malfunctions in a program or other system. These symptoms may be detected during testing or use by real users. . It will work across any Web browser that supports AJAX technologies. Developers can use the Atlas software through Microsofts Visual Studio 2005 development tools and the Web development framework ASP.NET 2.0, both of which are expected to ship in November. Atlas is part of a suite of Microsoft technologies for creating so-called rich-client applications. The company is also investing in development tools to more easily build Office applications that tap into data from back-end applications, such as those from SAP and Siebel. At the Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft will give more information on front-end development using Avalon, the presentation system and programming model scheduled to arrive with Windows update An updating service on Microsoft's Web site that enables users to obtain bug fixes and new features for their version of Windows. Windows Update components analyze your PC's configuration and display a list of appropriate downloads for your individual system. Longhorn The code name for the Windows Vista operating system. After the client version was renamed "Vista" in 2005, Longhorn referred to the server version until it was officially named Windows Server 2008 in May of 2007. See Windows Vista. next year, Cnet News.com |
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