Ajax the New Thing

I came across and interesting article on Web Monkey and decided to take a closer look. The article is about a way of using Ajax. Instead of using javascript as the primary parser of the xml, flash is inserted into the js to be used as the engine. The footprint of the js file intern becomes smaller thus leaving a smaller imprint of approx. 65 lines of code. Rumor has it because flash is so efficient at rendering as a parser the method is faster then a full javascript Ajax example. More about the theory and examples can be seen on Fjax.

I also have some concerns about the search engine implications using these Ajax methods. By taking a look at the source you’ll notice only the initial loaded info shows up. Is all that other content not crawlable? Interesting thought. I’m guessing probably not, which could be a very bad thing. I can also see the advantage of this method for search engine optimization. This is another way for online marketers to use Ajax as a way to cache content for SEO reasons while providing different content for the end user.

Because the site seems to be a bit unreliable I have uploaded the example files local as well:
Ajax Example 1
Ajax Example 2
Ajax Example 3