Atlas Project

Atlas Project

"... One area we’ve been looking at for a while is the growing popularity of richer user experiences in browsers, through AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML)-style programming. ...

For this work, we’ve been working on a new project on our team, codenamed “Atlas”. Our goal is to produce a developer preview release on top of ASP.NET 2.0 for the PDC this September, and then have a website where we can keep updating the core bits, publishing samples, and building an active community around it.

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The Atlas Client Script Framework is an extensible, object-oriented 100% JavaScript client framework that allows you to easily build AJAX-style browser applications with rich UI and connectivity to web services. With Atlas, you can write web applications that use a lot of DHTML, Javascript, and XMLHTTP, without having to be an expert in any of these technologies

The Atlas Client Script Framework will work on all modern browsers, and with any web server. It also won’t require any client installation at all – to use it, you can simply include references to the right script files in your page. ..."

VERY cool (but I have to say, "about time"). I've been doing this in IE, for a couple years and it's been a pain. I might as well be coding in Notepad (actually I did do some of it there, sigh)...

I'm glad to see MS jump into this, and to make the "hard right" (i.e. cross browser & platform) choice over the "easy wrong" (IE only). Also it's nice to see them respond and adapt to the tech so fast (well ajax has been around since 98'ish, so I guess it's not really fast, but you get the idea).

Think this is "future tech" enough to get some session coverage at PDC? I hope so...