Ajax is short for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It was coined in 2005 by Jesse James Garrett. Ajax is not a specific programming language or technology. Ajax is a Web development technique. Ajax brings dynamic data interactivity to Web pages. For example, a Web client sorts a column of data, and the data is automatically changed with live server data without reloading the entire page.
Digging into WebDriver today an interesting question popped up. How does WebDriver interact with browser?! Only thing I knew that it was using JNI to connect to native DLL’s.
Progressive Enhancement is a philosophy of web design - start with simple pages, and build them up based on the capabilities of the browser viewing the page. It’s related to (and in some ways, the opposite of) the idea of Graceful Degradation, starting with a nice, fancy page, and dealing with any browser faults in an elegant manner.
The advent of AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) has opened up new doors to web developers, allowing for interaction with and display of database and other external data in a web document, without the need to load a new page.
AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML. Any server side technology that supports JavaScript also supports AJAX. AJAX is a browser technology, and is therefore independent of web server platforms.
When using JavaScript libraries to perform a function on a public-facing web site, the traditional way of referencing your library is using something like this:
There are two kinds of errors: those that the application users see and those that developers use to resolve bugs and performance issues. Typically, error messages are displayed to the end user in a message dialog or other GUI component.
In one of my projects, I need to add several static pages to it. Those pages are static html and will not need update.
Ajax is very fundamental tool for any RIA. Django makes it rather easy to interact with Ajax, specially if you’re using some of the common JavaScript frameworks like jQuery, Dojotoolkit or Ext-JS.
In this tutorial we will explore ASP.NET AJAX Extensions ability to do a partial or incremental page update without doing full postbacks to the server, without any code changes and with minimal markup changes.
Facebook is currently one of the most popular websites. Almost everyone interested in social networking is using this website to connect to old friends around the world or to create new contacts in their chosen industry. The popularity of this website is not just based on its ability to update others with your status.
Ajaxlines is a project focused on providing its audience with a database of most of Ajax related articles, resources, tutorials and services from around the world.
Its purpose is to showcase the power of Ajax and to act as a portal to the Ajax development community.