April 12, 2005

Good Ajax Overview

If you are looking for a good overview of what ajax is and how it enhances the user experience check out this article on Javalobby by Jesse James Garrett.

First excellent point of the article is that Ajax incorporates several technologies to derive the Ajax web application model. The technologies are:

  • standards-based presentation using XHTML and CSS;
  • dynamic display and interaction using the Document Object Model;
  • data interchange and manipulation using XML and XSLT;
  • asynchronous data retrieval using XMLHttpRequest;
  • JavaScript binding everything together.

Posted by Elyse at April 12, 2005 7:33 AM | TrackBack
Comments

Agreed, that was a well written article on AJAX probably the cleanest one i've read since i've heard that cursed name heh.

I get people telling me "We are going to go AJAX for our apps" and i sit there shaking my head going "so you're going down the DHTML path" and they reply "no Ajax path".

At this point i tell them to focus on the key ingredient, Document Object Model. Thats what kills people and makes them turn to technologies like FLASH.

Posted by: Scott Barnes at April 12, 2005 7:41 AM

Original article is here:
http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php

Posted by: guest at April 12, 2005 7:48 AM

Have you seen any CF code that uses Ajax yet?

Posted by: Chris Dempsey at April 12, 2005 7:08 PM

I ant to know how applications that included with ajax going to be worked in the real industry projects

Posted by: Ruchira Chamara at November 3, 2007 7:00 AM
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