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What the smurf is ajax?

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 5:13 pm
by Luke
OK... has something to do with xhtml (html), javascript and xml? is this correct? What is it??

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 5:21 pm
by josh
It can use xml, all it means is javascript is making a remote procedure call

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax


You can let javascript select, update or delete from your database for instance by having it call a PHP page. Its been around forever but its recently being called AJAX.. just another useless buzz word

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 5:26 pm
by Luke
thanks for clearing that up. :)

kinda like dhtml was a useless buzz word...

EDIT: Only the nerdiest of people would be able to put all of your signature together... bravo!

Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 7:13 pm
by raghavan20
you guys i think are underestimating AJAX, look at this simple app with the power of AJAX it has become highly usable.

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 9:54 am
by Chris Corbyn
Gmail, Google Maps, MSN WebMessenger....

Yes it has become a bit of a "Buzz Word" but it's damn useful. Microsoft started it with the activeX object (Microsoft.XMLHTTP) but it's now been introduced into other browsers as the XMLHttpRequest object. It essentially allows the browser to pull information from the server (or send information) without actually reloading the page.

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 11:20 am
by josh
raghavan20 wrote:you guys i think are underestimating AJAX, look at this simple app with the power of AJAX it has become highly usable.
I said the buzzword is useless, not the technology itself. Anyways, its been possible forever, only recently has all the hype started. Contrary to mass belief the xmlhttp request thing did not start ajax, it can be done through an iframe (and this is how we used to do it in the old days.. god if I ever have kids that become web developers they're going to hate me telling them crap like that all the time)

Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 1:30 pm
by timvw
It's the same as telling people that you had to write your own session mechanism a couple of years ago...