Reviews & Opinions

'The benefits of AJAX are undisputed, in particular the techniques that empowered the Web 2.0 experience. This helped make AJAX very popular among mainstream webprogramming because it offered a richer web UI and more fluid page transitions. Today, approximately 60% of all newly built websites use some AJAX components. AJAX, however, has not achieved a penetration rate that is even close to that of the enterprises. In fact, only 1% of newly built enterprise web applications utilize major AJAX infrastructures..."

"Stepping back, the advantage of using Visual WebGui is easily seen by what skills were not required: ASP.NET directives (those funny <%@> tags), HTML, DHTML, CSS (News - Alert), and AJAX concepts (e.g. UpdatePanel). Furthermore, the declarative style of ASP.NET was avoided in favor of the familiar method of instantiating controls are setting their initial properties in code," stated David Ching.

Gizmox is preparing a commercial release of its open-source Visual WebGui AJAX development framework. Gizmox has adopted the jQuery library as its client-side engine while mimicking the Windows Forms development model.