[These are notes from 4D Summit 2008. Pictures will come later...]
Presentation by 4D Inc. Web 2.0 Team

Web 2.0 is all about rich user interfaces, another factor is the ability to constantly roll out new enhancements. One of the other factors is the fact that end users are driving the features by saying “I saw that [...]

Pages that change are called dynamic pages. These can be template based or have small (or large) scripts embedded in them that execute either in the browser or on the server before the page is delivered to the browser.

A talk was given at the NYC4D meeting on 19 March 2008 by Julien Feason with input from Add Komoncharoensiri and Rudi Pšeničnik - software engineers at 4D, Inc. They went over the new version of 4D’s Ajax framework with Data Grid 2.0.

I was pleasantly surprised by what I saw of the 4D Ajax framework at 4D Summit. For certain applications it’s extremely powerful, and the “no code” admin tool is a lot better than you might imagine.

The ‘bridge’ portion of the 4D Ajax framework can be integrated with a variety of other Ajax frameworks. Lee Hinde showed the 4D framework working with jQuery and discussed the issues and challenges this type of programming entails.