On PHPEverywhere</a. today, there's this new posting in which John</i. posts somne of Adam Bosworth's comments (Alex Bosworth's son) about AJAX and some of its common pitfalls.

My son (Alex Bosworth) posted a popular post a week ago on the pitfalls of Ajax applications but he left out some of the features still missing from Ajax applications: First, printing is still hard. [...] Secondly, the browser isn't a good listener to external events. [...] Third, if you want the application to run offline, you are essentially out of luck.

The first two on this list, yeah, I'll agree with. There's still not a really simple AJAX toolkit that makes output easy for most applications, and browsers just weren't made to listen to external applications. The last one, however, is pretty obvious just considering the nature of AJAX (Javascript HTTP requests). I mean, yes, it would be nice to have something similar that could do queries locally to get information, but that's what you'd use - something similar, not AJAX...