Django/AJAX Beating

James Bennett is taking a bit of a beating for his Django/AJAX suggestions. A lot of the criticism is unmerited Rails envy, I imagine. Rails has RJS — great! Django is not Rails.

If you want to build more than toy apps, you'll need something more sophisticated than these little server-side helper functions. And if you just want partial page updates or DHTML UI tricks, any JavaScript toolkit can make this quick and painless for you.

I also don't see why when someone says "Django's AJAX support shouldn't look like RJS," people hear, "Django isn't going to include AJAX support." AJAX, for all it's usefulness as a term, is used in many different ways. I think the confusion in this case is due to the same word being used to mean two completely different things.

Posted by deryck on July 4, 2006

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