Lucid Tech Reporting from FT.com
Ajax, a program that allows users to send a message, an e-mail or to post a comment on their friends’ pages without having to open a new browser window.
Actually, the rest of the article is pretty good and I know reporters struggle with geeky details like explaining AJAX, but “new browser window[s]”?
You can see where the reporter got this info but was in over his technical head:
Facebook was quick to embrace Ajax but MySpace did not follow suit, partly because to do so would have reduced the number of page views the site generated and therefore its advertising revenue. “It would take five steps to post a comment or send a message, so five different pages would open,” explains another former executive.
“Different pages would open” = new browser windows huh?
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/fd9ffd9c-dee5-11de-adff-00144feab49a.html








