An AJAX let down

Yesterday I programmed my first AJAX application. I have programmed in XHTML, CSS, Javascript, ActionScript, VisualBasic, PHP, MySQL, XML, XSLT, and Perl but I had never taken the chance to actually create an AJAX application. I finally sat down to do it, having read about how it works almost a year ago. Now, having done it, I am suddenly less impressed with how it works.

Don't get me wrong, it is a very helpful tool to know about and be able to use but programatically it left me wanting. I guess that for me it felt too much like ActionScipt which, for so reason, I evaluated to be a bad thing. I think it is my utter dislike for superfluous pages in a website. I don't like the whole idea of a single page dedicated to nothing other then a single process but I guess I needed a login page anyway, right?

Well, I've done it now. Moving on...