Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : Selling AJAX by the pound

23 February 2006 8 pm eastern

Selling AJAX by the pound

On Valentine’s Day the U.S. Government granted a patent on AJAX to an obscure web shop that promptly announced plans to “license” the technology thousands of sites and products are using. What happens next is anyone’s guess, but I suspect it will involve lawyers.

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