Tag: AJAXLAUNCH

ajaxTunes is a new product from Michael Robertson's ajaxLaunch (also known as Ajax 13, also responsible for ajaxWrite, ajaxXLS, and ajaxSketch) that lets you stick a little music player on any web page, similar to Flash MP3 Player but, of course, with Ajax. The player is attractive and works as advertised, but the ajaxTunes web site does a very poor job of explaining how to use it with your own ...

Michael Robertson's ajaxLaunch is trying hard to keep up the buzz from the launches of its web-based word processor ajaxWrite and drawing app ajaxSketch, and today it's launched ajaxXLS, a web-based spreadsheet app. ajaxXLS looks promising, and will no doubt look familiar to Excel users, but having spent a few minutes with it I can already tell ajaxXLS is far from finished. In fact, it's downright ...

The criticisms are, in part, the same problems you find with any web-based application. Namely, keyboard shortcuts don't always work (or get implemented), browser-specific technology (in this case, Firefox 1.5), and of course some folks raise security issues with the whole ajax thing... But Extremetech gets very specific in criticisms of ajaxWrite, which we mentioned earlier. It's a top-to-bottom ...