Quote Originally Posted by PeejAvery
4. Good roots. AJAX is a technology been in existence since the 90's. It has been standard and the standard was set high when it began.
Flash has been around since the 90's too .

Personally I prefer AJAX to Flash for several reasons:
  • I don't have a copy of Flash. To use AJAX I just use a text editor.
  • AJAX isn't owned by anybody, I'm a bit of an open-source advocate, so AJAX is preferable to Flash in that respect.
  • AJAX doesn't require any special plugins. The browser needs to support it, but pretty much all modern browsers do so it's a non-issue.
  • Most important: AJAX is simple. With Flash I get all these bells and whistles to do all these fancy things like animations and playing sounds. AJAX addresses a single need: to interact with the server without refreshing the page. Also other libraries like jQuery make AJAX even simpler to use without adding much overhead.