One of the concerns developers will always face in building Ajax based applications using frameworks are the libraries. There are hundreds of them available online and most of them are free to download and could be used in your website. These libraries could be loaded in your server and will be used to create calls so that data could be ... Read Article

Google Web Toolkit or GWT is a very popular framework for developing Ajax based websites. As developers worldwide need all the help they could get in developing websites based on a very difficult web technique, GWT is a welcoming framework. GWT helps developers write the application freely in Java and convert the function later into ... Read Article

An Ajax based application provides rich user interface and experience for users. By combining the power of JavaScript and XML, developers are able to build applications that asynchronously streams data. The result is an application or a website wherein users will receive real time updates without any command from the user. Since the termrsquo;s ... Read Article

Google has recently updated its search API to be more robust and non-JavaScript friendly. Since the early SOAP-based search API, developers have been trying to cope up with the technology of Google. Although these are really good innovations, there are a lot of things that you have to put up with SOAP. One of them is the limiting innovation of ... Read Article

Document Object Model is one of the most important components of an Ajax based application or website. Regular websites use HTML so that they could effectively render to the browser the information they want to impart. It is very simple and does not require a lot of footprint as long as the information is simple without any intensive graphics. ... Read Article

In most ajax based applications, XML has a very big role to fulfill. As one of the most recognized markup languages, developers already have a good idea on how to deal with XML. Although there are hurdles recognized as to how XML could actually be implemented in an Ajax based application, resources and assistance could be found online at ... Read Article

Accessibility on a live web browser is one of the main features of an Ajax based application especially when they are made in the light of Web 2.0 functionality. As the flagship web technique for Web 2.0 Ajax provides smarter access options for developers as secured access to applications will be executed with little bandwidth and better ... Read Article

Even though Ajax has been around for a couple of years, developers are still struggling manually coding Ajax. It is quite difficult to admit this but Ajax is one of the development languages for the web and application that is really hard to learn. Most of the developers who are proficient in a language find it hard to move over to ... Read Article

In any web development plan, tackling the requirement of each browser is always a challenge. Web developers have to think of building their application to be browser friendly not only in IE and Firefox but also in relatively popular browsers such as Safari, Flock and other browsers that are preferred by a specific market. The solution to this ... Read Article

WaveMaker is one of the leaders in developing tools for rapid application development (RAD). They develop tools that could aid developers in building not just simple websites but tools that aid in the development of Web 2.0 and RIA (Rich Internet Application) worthy websites. As developers of open-source tools, they have cemented their place ... Read Article

Catalyst Resources and Backbase Announce Business Alliance to Deliver End-to-End Solution for Design and Development of Enterprise RIAs Web 2.0 Expo, San Francisco, CA - Catalyst Resources, a leader in rapid application design and Backbase, the leading provider of enterprise software for creating AJAX-based Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), ... Read Article

Qooxdoo was released in the first quarter of 2006, Qooxdoo differs itself from other Ajax enabled frameworks because it uses JavaScript as its tool for development. Most Ajax based framework that we know of either uses other Java or other languages since its primary aim is to help developers build an Ajax based application or framework. This ... Read Article

MarkItUp! is a lightweight yet very efficient JavaScript plug-in for developers who want to build an Ajax based website. The plug-in could be integrated easily in a jQuery library ndash; upgrading the libraries already extensive list of functions. This plug-in was developed by Jay Salvat and it is available for free in his website: ... Read Article

Internet Explorer is definitely not the darling of Ajax developers. The different issues any developer would have to face in building Ajax for IE would mean extra work. Although the number of IE users are lesser compared to what it was 5 years ago, the fact that more than half of the worldrsquo;s internet users use only IE forces the ... Read Article

Although nearly after three years since Ajax became the byword for the next stage in web and applications development, developers are still haunted by the fact that there are actually few testing tools developed that could handle the particular type of development technique. Developers could of course choose to manually inspect the ... Read Article

Talking about scaffolding makes us think about building construction support. The term scaffolding was also admitted by Rails as a way of helping developers build an application faster. In Rails, developers enjoy the privilege of having a temporary code to build a demo of the application. This code is not built for long time use, but just ... Read Article

Another Ajax Based Google Translation Application Released Recently, Google offered to the public their latest offering of language translation applications. Via public API, developers should be able to apply to their own website Google translates for developers to easily configure their website to any other languages they prefer. Aside from ... Read Article

Fetching data from the server using Ajax with JavaServer components is a little bit challenging especially when you wanted an autosuggestion added to the functionality. Configuring an autosuggest is a little bit challenging since the information will have an immediate effect to the whole application. This is a little bit discomforting for the user ... Read Article

Bored with your current webforms? Try niceform. Basically this script will let developers build a good Ajax based web forms in their website. You can basically say goodbye to old looking comments page and web forms as this web form is a little bit challenging to configure but it will work wonders when efficiently coded. Niceform was developed by ... Read Article

Google Gears and Adobe AIR are two applications that represent the next step of browsing experience. Although Google and Adobe do not really say that much about the philosophy of our online experience, we are always looking out what these applications means to our online experience. Because these two applications run on Ajax and foster RIA just ... Read Article