Ajax

By tarannum bagwan Before we delve deep into the Ajax frameworks, let’s have a quick recap of what Ajax and why it is so popular. The word Ajax is and acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It is a combination of different technologies, used for building rich and responsive user interfaces. The benefits o...

By SHASHANK SHEKHAR AJAX is really faster in its application as it does not need connection to server every time you ask for the information. Call back process for required information from users is capable enough to avoid sluggishness of page view. Data updation has been made quite simple and there is no need t...

By SHASHANK SHEKHAR Life cycle of AJAX is more similar to a traditional GUI than a traditional web application. It has DOM objects who acts like GUI widgets. The used script has capacity to register even listeners on DOM objects and respond accordingly after manipulating DOM.

By SHASHANK SHEKHAR Basics of AJAX: AJAX is defined or termed as Asynchronous Javascript and XML. It’s a new avtar of modern day website creation. AJAX is one of the programming techniques which has primarily made popular after 2005 by Google. No doubt about it that AJAX has set innovative and new standads of pro...

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By Ildar Kaplunov AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. With the assistance of AJAX, its developers are capable to make new internet applications that permit them to work quicker. Opposing to well-known faith, it’s a system rather than a language. Internet 2.0 is typically associated with AJAX H...

By Ildar Kaplunov Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is the other emerging idea utilizing JavaScript. Typically an internet page must be revived each time a user demands some information. That cause a time delay and user could loose interest in the web-site. In case you’re utilizing Ajax, it helps a web...

By Ildar Kaplunov The asynchronous JavaScript and XML tech, simply called AJAX tech is one key tech that’s playing a main part in Internet 2.0 revolution. Internet developers are facing a main challenge from quite a few years. They’re not able to change the data on a part of the internet page with out in fact rel...

By Ildar Kaplunov At the face worth, Ajax may look an extremely user favorable application. Though, you should be watchful in implementing that in your web-site. The Ajax advancement corporations may come gaga about the advantages of that application, but it has its own difficulties. The application migh...

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By Ildar Kaplunov AJAX is a well-known internet advancement model utilized in dynamic and speedy interactive internet applications. Its enlarged form is Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It’s not a new tech but is a grouping quite a few pre-existing know-how which incorporate XHTML and CSS, XML and XSLT,...

By Ildar Kaplunov In case you have a site that uses Internet 2.0 know-how like AJAX, then tracking page views isn’t going to tell you a lot. In a customary internet page, each click of a link or a button causes a trip to the internet server and a reloading of identical page with new data or of a new page – this way a new...

By Ildar Kaplunov HTML: for arrangement and interface XML: for structured interaction JavaScript: to lighten evaluation making & programming PHP/ASP: for server-side processing An internet server with server-side scripting An internet browser supporting JavaScript

By Ben Galbraith Following-up from our previous posting, we've got some more Ajax Experience videos. This post's theme is JavaScript and JSON: Practical Functional JavaScript with Oliver Steele JSON SOA-based Client/Server App Dev with Kris Zip

By Dion Almaer At this point, you’re basically rewriting the same logic that the web app developer wrote originally. If you’re a QA engineer, this may be difficult since you don’t know all the internal AJAX logic coded in to the application. If you’re the developer, it’s still annoying because it’s tedio...

By Ben Galbraith In this session you learn: How to make your Web sites 25-50% faster; The impact of iframes on your Web site, including blank iframes; How inline scripts block rendering in the entire page and downloads; What you might be doing with stylesheets that make your pages twice as slow; The variou...

By Dion Almaer The Appcelerator folks have a big announcement today. They are announcing an early release of Appcelerator Titanium which is easiest if you think of it as an "Open Web version of Adobe AIR" in that it is a runtime that has extended APIs that allows developers to create applications using We...

By Dion Almaer Voting has started in Dojo land to take in John Resig’s Sizzle next-gem CSS selector engine. Overview It’s very likely that Sizzle will eventually expand into other areas of JavaScript libraries (such as DOM manipulation and event binding).

By Dion Almaer Most Ajax frameworks stop short and leave it up to the user to manage state on the client side and propagating the changes to the server. This is not a trivial problem! Over the past few years UI widget libraries have improved significantly and there are now various options available to user...

By Robert Creating easily some frameworks with those 4 tools. Mootools allows you to create some effects easily. Yahoo UI library allows you to create a thousand of interfaces and effects. Dojo allows you to create widgets, graphs and etc. OpenRico allows you to create animations, ajax, drag and drop...

By Dion Almaer We also delve into Canvas land and the fun and frolics that are planned for The Ajax Experience in Boston that happens soon. I am excited about the framework mini-events that happen around the same time too, and gather the crew behind jQuery, Dojo, and Prototype.

By Mark Hendrickson Anyone can sign up and start using StartForce by going to its website (works best in Firefox 3). The real product, however, consists of an enterprise version for corporations that pay for support on a per-seat, usage basis. Since the enterprise version debuted last month, four companies h...

By Dion Almaer The OpenAjax Registry is a centralized, industry-wide Ajax registration authority managed by the Interoperability Working Group at OpenAjax Alliance. The Registry maintains an industry-wide list of Ajax runtime libraries and various characteristics of each library. For each libr...

By Dion Almaer JSON format used strongly in both; Comprehensive Ajax Solution: Dojo has it all; Standards: "Dojo not only implements published standards, but also drives them"; Communities and support: Strong communities, with support offerings behind ...

By Dion Almaer Secondly, we have Ajax the Dojo way which takes us on a trip down dojo.data and dojox.Grid lane... two differentiating features that Dojo comes with. The chapter builds a wishlist system using these features. ...

By Dion Almaer Ben and I gave a presentation at JavaOne on what’s new with Ajax. Since this was JavaOne, we skewed a little more than we normally would to Java topics, and one of them was using the new Java Plugin, that has great new features such as being able to take a running applet out of [...]

By Dion Almaer Simon Willison gave another jQuery talk, this time at XTech, called Unobtrusive JavaScript with jQuery. In the presentation he delves into the reasons why you should go unobtrusive, how to use jQuery, and why they are a good match. ...

By Dion Almaer The W3C has issued a last call on the XMLHttpRequest spec: The Web API Working Group has published the Last Call Working Draft of The XMLHttpRequest Object. The XMLHttpRequest Object specification defines an API that provides scripted client functionality for transferring data betwe...

By Chris Heilmann James Coglan got inspiration from Dustin Diaz' DED|Chain and wrote a chaining wrapper for the the YUI's DOM, event, animation and Ajax modules called Ojay. He wraps up his intentions thus:. To me, expressiveness is not just ’syntactic ...

By Dion Almaer Today I have my eyes on new technologies that will change client application development (web applications). To see any feedback of my MVP award for 2008 I’d like to concentrate more on those topics. I’m still using AJAX in nearly all my web applications, but the future will bring more impor...

By Dion Almaer Honest Open Source Not all open source projects are equalMake everything open and public immediately (e.g. SVN)Corporate open source projects often lose their flavourOutside commiters are keySome people hate me, but love MongrelDocumentation is poor for Rails and Ruby, Ruby doesn’t...

By Rey Bango I'm always surprised but what people are building using JavaScript & Ajax. It's spurred so much creativity over the last two years and it doesn't appear to be stopping soon. Most recently, I discovered Mibbit, a JS/Ajax-based IRC client, and had the opportunity to interview the devel...

By Michael Mahemoff Ask any self-respecting Ajax developer how they time events, and they’ll tell you “I use setTimout()” or more likely, “I use setTimeout(), duh”. However, two new Ajax patterns are making that “duh” seem just a little tenuous. One new timing technique relies on the notorious tag, the other...

By Dion Almaer Votes and violations: CrowdRules strives to provide a honest voting environment for our users. The application prevents common abuses of online voting systems by encrypting votes using one-time tokens. Ruby on Rails lets us elegantly bind the voting UI with the logic that manages token...

By Michael Mahemoff In my recent post on current concerns with Ajax, there was a comment about lack of documentation for Dojo and Prototype. In the comments (of the Ajaxian post and my blog post), project members asked what would you like to see wrt documentation? Here’s my wishlist for Ajax framework docs, in...

By Michael Arrington All Yahoo has to do is remain competitive, and their massive user base will keep them at the top of the pile. Their recent enhancements are a good first step. Now they need to focus on integrating their Konfabulator desktop widget platform into My Yahoo as well - widget compatibility is an are...

By Dion Almaer MyPunchbowl, the event planner that may kill evite, has pushed a new version, now with 150% more Ajax. We asked Matt Douglas (Punchbowl team) to tell us what is new, and he replied: All Sign in and Sign up windows are done in a modal dialog. Note the cool Ajax zoom effect we chose to use. We’ve impl...

By Dion Almaer AOL has launched their AIM Webmail beta that uses Dojo for rich interaction a la Gmail and Yahoo! Mail. AOL has been a long term fan of Dojo and it shows in view source: PLAIN TEXT HTML:         Source: Ajaxian Original Article: http://ajaxian.com/archives/aol-launches-dojo-based-ajax-w...

By Dion Almaer In short: The OpenAjax Alliance needs to seriously consider opening up their process to all Open Source JavaScript Libraries, helping to make their standards more practical and effective. Additionally, the OpenAjax Hub should be severely downsized, and reconsidered, if not removed...

By Michael Mahemoff The comparison among these approaches will be worth watching in coming months. For now, though, it’s great to see how much Ajax and the web has evolved in the past two years, with Google providing a lot of the inspiration. From TechCrunch: “Beyond competition and concerns, tonight is a good...

By Dion Almaer is a new question and answers site that uses YUI, JSON, and other libraries to subtly use Ajax throughout. is a new question and answers site that uses YUI, JSON, and other libraries to subtly use Ajax throughout. An example check out the very visual sorting:

By Dietrich Kappe Somewhat lost in the hype around the release of the Ajax API was the discontinuation of the Google SOAP Search API. It’s still available to existing subscribers, but no new ones are being signed up. To see why this discontinuation is an exercise in brand discipline, you just have to look at th...

By Dion Almaer Comeeko is a new Ajax application from the guys behind Buttonator and PikiPimp. Comeeko allows you to build comic strips out of your own photos (or anything that you upload). The tool itself is a very simple ajax driven application: We have long thought about doing an ajaxian consultant com...

By Dion Almaer frevvo Live Forms is (yet another) Ajax-based web form builder that has been created for business forms. It was created by developers who were getting tired of hand-coding forms for clients. Some specific business form capabilities are: XML aware forms. Fancy layouts – collapsible secti...

By Dion Almaer The demo utilizes several technologies including: IIS7, ASP.NET Ajax Extensions, Linq, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Powershell, and the .NET Compact Framework.

By Ben Galbraith The month after that, Ajax2007 happens (Apr. 17 - 18). This show has also got a lot of Ajax names, including Jesse James Garrett and Bill Scott (Rico; Yahoo! Ajax Evangelist); Dion and I will also be there to greet our legion of UK Ajaxian.com fans (i.e., Dion’s family).

By Dion Almaer Milan Negovan has a new set of href="http://www.aspnetresources.com/blog/ms_ajax_cheat_sheets_batch2.aspx">cheat sheets for the Microsoft ASP.NET Ajax library. The existing cheat sheets have been updated for the 1.0 final release, and Milan has added two new ones for DomElement...

By Dion Almaer Omnidrive has a remarkably rich Ajax interface to their server backend (as well as mac and windows clients). When you login to the web based file explorer you quickly see that the experience looks very desktop-like. Right-click menus, drag and drop, and more.

By Dion Almaer Fork is the latest JavaScript library to be put out there. Fork is a general purpose, namespaced JavaScript library with Ajax, Events, DOM manipulation. There are a few bonus lines of code specifically for use with Ruby on Rails but Fork can be happily used outside of Rails also. Why create ye...

By Dion Almaer It is documentation Friday. The new site prototypejs.org has launched, and the call for documentation help rang through to some people. This new documentation includes: Tips and Tutorials (e.g. Ajax, Extending the DOM) API Reference Blog There is still room for a lot more help, so join in.

By Dion Almaer Joe Hewitt somehow managed to find the time to write an article on Ajax Debugging with Firebug, which he created. The article will show you that Firebug is more than just a JavaScript console: The Firebug Workflow: modify the page in place Exploring Objects: An AJAX-ian web page never stan...

By Dion Almaer ShackPrices is a Seattle-area real estate Ajax application written using Rails by Galen Ward and team. If you do real estate, you need to mashup to Google Maps, but this goes beyond that. It is highly interactive, with lots of live filters and tools, and the back button seems to be handled rea...

By Michael Mahemoff And now Doug Crockford has established aa JSON RFC: The application/json Media Type for JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) (via Sleepyhead). ... Source: Ajaxian Original Article: http://ajaxian.com/archives/the-json-rfc.

By Chris Cornutt Alexander Netkachev shows, in this new post on his site, how to create an Ajax-based login page with the help of the Dojo library and a new offering from Zend - the Zend Framework. The Zend Framework is a MVC-based framework written in ...

By Sreejith is a free and easy way to integrate a users favorite Web 2.0 apps like Gmail, TadaList, Digg, Writely, Kiko, iOutliner, Meebo, financial sites, and other Ajax based web programs right into Windows. They can create desktop, tray, and quick launch

By Sreejith Google acquires Popular Ajax Web Word Processor Writely. Google today announced the acquisition of writely. Writely, a collaborative word processor that runs in a web browser. Well, as of Monday, I’m happy to say that I, and the rest of the Writely team, are now part of Google.