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See also:
- JavaScript - the key to AJAX
- Web Servers
Introduction
In the spring of 2006 this technology started gathering momentum, and might be the next big thing on the Web.
The things I like about AJAX are:
- it allows you to update part of the contents of a displayed web page in an efficient and easy to control manner.
- it provides a means of making small updates quickly, giving your user more feedback and a better "interactive" feel
- it requires little "special stuff" on the server, largely just a different way of thinking about what the server should be doing. In the extreme the server is changed from being an HTML source to a provider of structured packets of data that are assembled for display by the browser
- simple things are still quite simple, complex things just take a bit longer
Information on AJAX
- 2009-Apr-03: Flojax might be a better way of creating AJAX applications. [7822] [1]
- 2008-Nov-20: Microsoft's Seadragon Ajax project provides a deep zoom function for Ajax sites. [7245]
- 2008-Jun-17: zoomii books takes a Google Maps approach to navigating an online book store. The days of wandering little twisting passages decorated with merchandise and populated by monsters may not be far away... [6359]
- 2008-May-28: Google is going to host commonly used AJAX libraries. [6252] [1]
- 2008-May-03: Using Firebug and YSlow to analyze the performance of AJAX applications. [6040]
- 2008-Jan-06: Simplica makes an AJAX component suite. [4591]
- 2007-Oct-27: Ajax for media, a how-to from IBM's DeveloperWorks on showing movies and slide shows with AJAX. [3522]
- 2007-Aug-29: A Slashdot book review of: GWT in Action, by Robert Hanson and Adam Tacy, ISBN: 1933988231. GWT is the Google Web Toolkit which is AJAX based. [834] [1]
- Why urlencoding is a good format for AJAX [3100]
- AjaxTerm is a Python module that uses AJAX to implement a classic ASCII terminal inside a web browser [3099]
- Dr. Dobb's Journal reviews 5 AJAX frameworks. [3098]
- In Mar'07 Microsoft joined the OpenAjax Alliance - if you can't beat them, join'em and destroy from within... [3097]
- Bosworth on the origins of AJAX [3096]
- Slashdot book review of: Ajax Design Patterns by Michael Mahemoff ISBN: 0596101805. [3095]
- Slashdot discusses debugging CSS, AJAX and DOM with Firebug [3094]
- When and how to use Ajax [3093]
- Experts say Ajax is not inherently insecure, discussed on Slashdot [3092]
- AjaxWorldMagazine asks some of the prominent Gurus of the AJAX world: What's so Special About AJAX? [3091]
- Six AJAX open-source toolkits [3090]
- An Ajax framework from Google [3089]
- A slide show presenting an introduction to MochiKit [3088]
- Using Ajax with Python, an interview with Dave Crane author of Ajax in Action [3087]
- One day with Ajax [3086]
- Slashdot book review of: Head Rush Ajax, by Brett McLaughlin, ISBN: 0-596-10225-9 [3085]
- Slashdot discusses Ajax and the Ken Burns Effect [3084]
- An article from IBM's Developer Works on AJAX [3083]
- The downside of AJAX [3082]
- AJAX, the next stage of web evolution? Its a marriage between JavaScript and XML, and employed by things like Google Maps. [3081]
- Thoughts on where Web applications are headed, perhaps a "web-OS"? [3080]
- Is your AJAX Application secure? [3079]
- Advanced requests and responses in Ajax [3078]
- Yahoo! has released a set of open source Ajax tools and a design pattern library for web design [3077]
- Online Ajax pages, could these be the new web desktop? ajaxWrite is a word processor implemented with Ajax. There is also an ajaxSketch that understands SVG. [3076]
- Using Python coroutines (part of Python 2.5) for AJAX purposes. [3075]
- Slashdot book review of: Foundations of Ajax, by Ryan Asleson and Nathaniel Schutta, ISBN: 1590595823. [3074]
- AJAX, Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is the technology that makes things like Google Maps possible. More on its use. A Slashdot book review of: Ajax in Action, by Pascarello Crane, ISBN 1932394613. [3073]
- AJAX: Getting Started, an artical from the Mozilla Developer Center that includes some worked examples. [3072]
- Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications, by Jesse James Garrett [3071]
- The Wikipedia artical on Ajax [3070]
- GWT Java AJAX Programming, by Prabhakar Chaganti, ISBN 1847191002. [3069]
- Creating Web Pages With Ajax, by Edmond Woychowsky, ISBN: 0132272679. [3068]
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Ajax for Dummies, Steve Holzner, ISBN: 0-471-78597-0. At about 350 pages this is not your typical massive web tome, but its quite good and is fairly self-contained. It has a reasonable review of JavaScript, which is essential to the whole Ajax process. It introduces the browser DOM and highlights the key points. It talks about XML, initially this is kept brief enough to get you formatting the data to be returned from the server and parsing it in the browser, later it is discussed at some length. It spends about a quarter of the book reviewing some of the available client and server frameworks, so if you are thinking of taking that road it might be worth getting just for this. - [3066]