Help Desk
Jul 7th 2005, 5:39 am
Who here has looked into AJAX (http://www.dotdesk.com/portal/FreeHelp/Forum/tabid/174/forumid/5/threadid/33/scope/posts/Default.aspx)?
AJAX stands for Asynchronus Javascript and XML. In its simplest form, you can think of it as a form that updates itself without having to hit a submit button.
This guy (http://www.webpasties.com/xmlHttpRequest/index.html) has a pretty good simple example of one.
AJAX isn't a new program language it is just a way of using Javascript to pre-fetch and pre-send information without the browser needing to refresh. With Google maps, when you scroll the map, the form has already retrieved the side maps so there is little or no waiting.
It is pretty sweet technology that most vendors are going to implement into their web development environments soon.
AJAX stands for Asynchronus Javascript and XML. In its simplest form, you can think of it as a form that updates itself without having to hit a submit button.
This guy (http://www.webpasties.com/xmlHttpRequest/index.html) has a pretty good simple example of one.
AJAX isn't a new program language it is just a way of using Javascript to pre-fetch and pre-send information without the browser needing to refresh. With Google maps, when you scroll the map, the form has already retrieved the side maps so there is little or no waiting.
It is pretty sweet technology that most vendors are going to implement into their web development environments soon.