339933 Practical Uses For AJAXhttp://www.interspire.com/content/articles/33/1/3-Practical-Uses-For-AJAXAJAX -- or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is the newest buzz word in web development. Utilizing a client-side XMLHTTPRequest object, HTML, JavaScript and CSS, you can replace the page refresh that has (up until a few months ago) been a mandatory part of posting data back to a web server.Ajax > Tips and TutorialsNov 11, 2006Interspire Pty. Ltd.
OK, this is my second tutorial for AJAX Freaks, so bear with me. Have you ever seen or wished you could have live data on your website? Have you got data stored in a database that UPDATEs reguarly? This tutorial will explain how you can achieve this effect using AJAX and PHP. As I mentioned in my first tutorial, this can be achieved in almost any server side scripting langauge, as long as you know how to make database queries in your desired langauge. I suggest that you know how to use the basic XMLHttpRequest object, if not then you might want to check out my first tutorial on introducing you to AJAX found here. You can find the entire
Ajax is a system that is comprised of a number of different technologies, and some of these include DOM, HTML, JavaScript, and DHTML. These technologies together are used to create an approach that will allow users to transform static web interfaces into those which are highly interactive. To fully understand the power of Ajax, you must be able to first understand how these various technologies work together. One of the most important factors in the success of Ajax is the XMLHttpRequest object. A few years ago, developers who didn't know XML were often not popular among their
You can practically make some changes in the application while seeing the updated version through the admin. You can even integrate other applications that were used with scaffolding and see how they work together.
Developers who follow this practice do this thinking that the code will eventually help regular users in browsing the website. Take for example an Ajax based shopping cart. Instead of having to go through different pages in security and setting up parameters, developers will just place everything in a single page. That exact page will hasten the process of regular user’s shopping. When this process is used, developers have achieved the purpose of the coding it that way.
After all, GWT is practically the leader in Java frameworks that aims in developing Ajax based websites. GWT literally translates your Java coding into JavaScript so that it could be applied to create an Ajax based application. Sites such as Gmail and applications such as Google Earth are some of the best Ajax based applications developed by Google – all built with GWT.
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