eBay and Ajax
If you don’t know what Ajax is, then go to the travel search engine, Kayak.com, and begin typing in ‘New York’ into the from field and look at the suggestion pane that automagically appears. That’s one example. Behind the scenes it is Javascript that communicates with a server via XML.
You might also have seen it if you use Gmail, Flickr or the most famous example, Google Maps. The one application that doesn’t have it is eBay.
Instead people madly refresh pages and place bids as the auction runs out. Maybe it is because the technology is unproven (although from what I can tell the underlying technologies have been around for years), but it seems silly that eBay is not using Ajax. The two seem to be made for each other. Ajax and stock trading for that matter too.
