If you'll remember a while back, we posted something about Ajax, a new technology from Adaptive Path that combines XML and Javascript to make a new "rich DHTML application".

Well, John Lim asks the question everyone wants to know the answer to: will Ajax catch on?.

The current web model of synchronous page requests and responses is a very simple and easy to implement. I wouldn't want to give it up completely for something like AJAX. Furthermore, AJAX is something for hard-core programmers, not web designers with programming skills. But for selected screens where high levels of interactivity are important, AJAX or Flash do make sense. Flickr is a good example of this mix of models.

Seems to me that if it really is targeted more towards the "real programmers" and less towards the general web development population, it probably won't catch on...