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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

In addition, to horrible bandwidth and latency, the technology products were very crude in other ways. Programming languages were radically less functional, hardware was literally a hundred times more expensive, and there was no virtualization or cloud computing or AJAX. Worse yet, over ½ of those 55 million were dialup users.

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So You're Going To Start A Huge New Web Project

css-tricks.com

They often have lower bandwidth. I want to request some content via Ajax and get just the content back, no markup - here you go. Almost certainly youll be needing to do some DOM manipulation stuff and Ajax and thats what jQuery slays at. Youll need to decide if you are going to build a mobile-specific site or not. Need a guide?

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