all ur assessments are pretty accurate. There are many different
implementations of ajax though. AJAX.NET does what you describe, while
MagicAjax and Atlas sorta sit between a pull page submit and a quick hit...
Karl
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> Hi,
>
> I just went into a debate with my colleague regarding these technologies.
> I
> think they are not the same:
>
> At a high-level...
> Client-side caching is to do with temporary internet file and the 'check
> for
> newer verions of stored pages' setting in Internet Explorer
> Server-side caching is to do with asp.net and IIS. It instructs how IIS
> should fetch pages (e.g. depend on parameters, by time)
> ajax, which I am still learning, is a combination of technologies e.g.
> dhtml, xml, javascript. It only do a 'http get', using javascript, of the
> relevant part of a page.
> callbacks also uses javascript but 'http post' the whole page, similar to
> the traditional "post back"?
>
> Could someone please verified...
>
> Thanks