There are hundreds of frameworks out there that are aimed in helping developers who are not familiar with JavaScript to build an Ajax based application. Some of these frameworks are just drag and drop so you wonrsquo;t even have to sweat so much in building an Ajax based website. These frameworks are free and with any language that you fancy, ... Read Article

Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) are RIA platforms that are usually compared to the capabilities of Ajax. Although this is a little bit unfair for these platforms because Ajax is a collection of web language and not a proprietary platform, Ajax has been heavily identified with Google especially with their release of Gears. ... Read Article

When building an Ajax based website, one can encounter uncaught exception error while using Mozilla/Firefox. Error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to call method XMLHttpRequest.open Even though everything appear to be fine except for this error, it could be that the Ajax based website will be working well from IE but when loaded in ... Read Article

We are often dazzled with websites that were developed with Ajax. The interface is amazing and the interaction with users is simply beyond expectations. The asynchronous streaming of information from the server gives the user the ability to update the information in our browsers without refreshing the entire webpage. This update in web ... Read Article

Since Ajax was introduced to the public, there was little to no doubt among developers that this would be the future of our online experience. Even with the daunting task of learning JavaScript up to an advanced stage and all the security risk, developers are more than willing to dip themselves into this web development technique. The early ... Read Article

Web 2.0 is all about user related services and products. Website after website are being created everyday and introduced to the public as a Web 2.0 type of site: a user-content driven website that relies on the interaction of users for its success. The developers on the other hand have to ensure the smooth flow of operation in the website. ... Read Article

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 ... Read Article

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 ... Read Article

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 ... Read Article

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 ndash; 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 ... Read Article

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 ... Read Article

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 ... Read Article

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 ... Read Article

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 ... 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 ldquo;applicationrdquo; has been launched in 1999 and since then it has slowly created a buzz in complimenting JavaScript. XML on the other ... 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 ndash; RENDERED CORRECTLY. As you may have already heard, Ajax is a ...    Read Article

RIA (Rich Internet Applications) is highly demanded nowadays. We have to admit that wersquo;re not just content with simple information online. Wersquo;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 ...    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 ...   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 ...   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 ...   Read Article.