very nice collection of details on where to use AJAX.  Form driven interaction. Deep hierarchical tree navigation. Rapid user-to-user communication. Voting Yes No boxes Ratings submissions....   Read Article.
When any new technology undergoes fast and widespread adoption there s always an opportunity for unintended misuse. So it s no surprise that the World Wide Web has seen its fair share of mishandled technologies...   Read Article.
Put a new shine on your web applications. Tired of clunky web interfaces and waiting around for a page to reload Well it s about time to give your web apps that pine-scented desktop application feel. What are we talking about Just the newest thing to hit the Web Ajax asynchronous JavaScript and XML and your ticket to building rich Internet...   Read Article.
If anything about current interaction design can be called glamorous it s creating Web applications. After all when was the last time you heard someone rave about the interaction design of a product that wasn t on the Web...   Read Article.
RIA Rich Internet Applications is highly demanded nowadays. We have to admit that we’ re not just content with simple information online. We’ re looking for better interaction faster response and smarter browsers and programs that could virtually do everything. Various programs have been created to cater to these needs. Just in time for...    Read Article
Ajax is known to lessen the bandwidth requirement of a webpage so that it could be loaded faster in any computer. As Ajax bases its power on the server and not on the client the page could easily be loaded as long as they are rendered correctly. Let me repeat the last part RENDERED CORRECTLY. As you may have already heard Ajax is a complicated...    Read Article
JSON and XML are the two programs that have been lovingly adapted to JavaScript to create Rich Internet Applications. JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation. Considered as the subset of JavaScript the application” has been launched in 1999 and since then it has slowly created a buzz in complimenting JavaScript. XML on the other hand...
One of the coolest things a JavaScript could do in an Ajax based website is that its ability to drag and drop items right in the web browser. If you have an online store you should be able to drag and drop items to your cart instead of clicking on a product. The webpage should update you with the cart without even having to refresh the webpage. The...
If you are starting out in your first Ajax based program one of the biggest challenges that you have to face is to let your users remember not to hit the back button. Most of the time Ajax based programs does not like the back button. Unfortunately Ajax does not have that functionality in bookmarking the previous page so that it could be reloaded...
DOM is one of the unique functions that made JavaScript what it is today a great RIA language becoming the core of Ajax. Understanding Ajax is virtually impossible when you do not have faint information about DOM. DOM which stands for Document Object Model makes it possible for JavaScript to read HTML and transmit them to a webpage just like a JavaScript...
At first glance Ajax is definitely one of the most complicated web techniques out there. The combination of JavaScript XML and HTML might be just too much for budding developers literally requiring months of development for a simple Ajax application. Because of its complication developers have been backing out from Ajax and looking for some alternatives....
Ajax is still going strong and the hype will never go down unless a new and a better technique is coming up. So far what we have seen are variation of Ajax FJAX AHAX and SAJAX. Although they are innovation by themselves we cannot help but thinking that these innovations happened because of Ajax. We just have to wait a little bit for the next...
Developing an Ajax based Facebook application is always a challenging task. Unfortunately Facebook does not admit Ajax head-on. What developers have been doing in their websites and applications to enable Ajax or to make it an Ajax based application will not be applied in Facebook. The main reason of course is security. Although most of the developers...
In a regular HTML-based webpage from the time the webpage is loaded in the browser and every time a user clicks on a link a page is loaded and a new impression is made on the ads. When your business is online and part of your revenues come from ad-impression and earnings per leads every time a webpage is refreshed means a new impression and eventual...
The browser as we know it is simple and very functional. Because we have been using the same browser layout for more than a decade we have grown accustomed to using the browsers for our web information. The most basic application for developing a good web based application HTML has been used and revamped for so many times so that it could be integrated...