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Confusion and Controversy
Despite the popularity of the term Ajax, it has been met with its fair share of dissenters and controversy.
Some believe that Ajax is an aberration of what the Web was moving toward before Ajax entered the pic-
ture. The proponents of semantic HTML design, accessibility, and the separation of content and presen-
tation were gaining ground and acceptance among web developers, and some believe that the
popularity of Ajax has pushed that movement into the background. The belief of these detractors is that
Ajax promotes creating presentation within JavaScript, thus turning it into a messy mix similar to the
early days of server-side scripting. Many believe that accessibility will suffer if more developers turn to
Ajax solutions.
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