The AJAX approach to dynamic web programming has caught on all over the internet, heightening our expectations for a new generation of rich, interactive web applications. In this conversation, Phil Windley sits down with Ben Galbraith, Bruce Grant and Scott Lemon, three experienced AJAX developers and evangelists, to talk about progress and challenges in the AJAX world.

Given the energy of the AJAX community, we can expect very interesting times ahead as AJAX competes with rich client approaches to provide users with instantaneous feedback, powerful interfaces, and cool visual effects.