Why not just use AJAX?

The hot topic of Flash vs. Ajax seems to come up a lot lately. After the word became a meme, there was a surge where my freelance clients were asking for Ajax work. I could have dropped what I was doing to learn it so I could ride on the bandwagon, but when I looked closer, I saw all the quirks involved in doing even a simple task in a not-quite-object-oriented language which is slightly different for each browser. So I said “screw it” and focused on Flash instead (and incidentally, I haven’t had any trouble finding Flash work since then).

So, in the spirit of friendly competition, here’s a little article on Ajax which shares some of my own skepticism.