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I'm just curious, are there any AJAX tutorials on P2L?

[Matthew.]

You want to look under the "javascript" section.

Its a common misperception that AJAX is a new language, its all javascript so it will be there I recall some being there as well

Edited by .Matt, 22 July 2006 - 08:09 PM.

[Donna]

http://www.pixel2lif...avascript/AJAX/

[DanWilliamson]

.Matt, on Jul 23 2006, 02:08 AM, said:

You want to look under the "javascript" section.

Its a common misperception that AJAX is a new language, its all javascript so it will be there I recall some being there as well

Although I 100% agree with that, it's not all Javascript it,s XML, XHTML you can use PHP, XLST etc etc.. AJAX is merely a technology not an actual language.

Ajax, shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is a web development technique for creating interactive web applications. The intent is to make web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change. This is meant to increase the web page's interactivity, speed, and usability.

The Ajax technique uses a combination of:

XHTML (or HTML) and CSS, for marking up and styling information.
The DOM accessed with a client-side scripting language, especially ECMAScript implementations such as JavaScript and JScript, to dynamically display and interact with the information presented.
The XMLHttpRequest object to exchange data asynchronously with the web server. In some Ajax frameworks and in certain situations, an IFrame object is used instead of the XMLHttpRequest object to exchange data with the web server.
XML is sometimes used as the format for transferring data between the server and client, although any format will work, including preformatted HTML, plain text, JSON and even EBML.
Like DHTML, LAMP and SPA, Ajax is not a technology in itself, but a term that refers to the use of a group of technologies together.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX

[Donna]

<_< And to think I used to clean my bath tub with Ajax, times are a changing.

[saferwaters]

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Ajax is a catchy name for a type of programming made popular in 2005 by Google and other big web developers. Ajax loosely stands for Asynchronous Javascript And XML, but that just sounds like techno jargon to many people.

In plain English, Ajax can be thought of Javascript on steroids.

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[DanWilliamson]

Donna, on Jul 23 2006, 02:47 AM, said:

And to think I used to clean my bath tub with Ajax, times are a changing.

I was sad enough to point that out to my friend in Somerfields and he is not good on PC's and he turned round and said 'oh yeah it's name after a footy club'

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