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Update Page Live w/o whole page refreshing

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 4:55 pm
by elinews
How in the world does NFL do this with the live game stats? I would love to use this feature on one of my websites,
Thanks.

Re: Update Page Live w/o whole page refreshing

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 5:01 pm
by kr9091
elinews wrote:How in the world does NFL do this with the live game stats? I would love to use this feature on one of my websites,
Thanks.
Haha I'm wondering the same thing. I think they use AJAX.

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 5:34 pm
by superdezign
If you Get Firebug for Firefox, I believe it'll show you the AJAX requests, if that is indeed the technology that they are using (which it likely is).

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 5:39 pm
by Zoxive
Yup, its just Ajax grabbing Javascript Arrays.

I took a screen shot of what one thing Firebug shows.

http://zoxive.com/imgs/Screenshot-10.png

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 5:50 pm
by elinews
Ah - cool. Thanks guys. Looks like I'm off to learn AJAX.

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 8:07 pm
by s.dot
elinews wrote:Ah - cool. Thanks guys. Looks like I'm off to learn AJAX.
It's nothing new to learn, really. :) Just an aggregate mix of javascript and returned data.

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 9:57 pm
by Kieran Huggins
Do yourself a favour and check out a library that has ajax methods, no sense re-inventing the wheel. I obviously recommend jQuery.

That being said, it's always good to know what's happening behind the scenes.

Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:48 pm
by elinews
Sweet. Thanks guys. What exactly are the possibilties of AJAX?