Comments on: ajax http://www.shakykaiser.com/blog/archives/2005/11/22/ajax/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:27:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Phil http://www.shakykaiser.com/blog/archives/2005/11/22/ajax/#comment-11881 Phil Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:18:04 +0000 http://www.shakykaiser.com/blog/archives/2005/11/22/ajax/#comment-11881 From a developer's point of view it is the dog's kahoonas. From a developer’s point of view it is the dog’s kahoonas.

]]> By: Richard http://www.shakykaiser.com/blog/archives/2005/11/22/ajax/#comment-11872 Richard Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:41:07 +0000 http://www.shakykaiser.com/blog/archives/2005/11/22/ajax/#comment-11872 Very simple. It's a use of the XMLHttpRequest object available in the javascript namespace within a browser which allows you, asychronously, to submit HTTP requests and handle the response which, coupled with dynamic HTML techniques, allows you to submit and request data, and update a web page to reflect that data, without reloading the entire page, thereby providing a rich user experience more akin to the desktop paradigm than the usual HTTP fill-in-form-submit-process-get-new-page model. It's not a standard, which is why you need different initialisation code to create the object for different browsers, and the X part of it is strictly optional... Simple, eh? Very simple. It’s a use of the XMLHttpRequest object available in the javascript namespace within a browser which allows you, asychronously, to submit HTTP requests and handle the response which, coupled with dynamic HTML techniques, allows you to submit and request data, and update a web page to reflect that data, without reloading the entire page, thereby providing a rich user experience more akin to the desktop paradigm than the usual HTTP fill-in-form-submit-process-get-new-page model.

It’s not a standard, which is why you need different initialisation code to create the object for different browsers, and the X part of it is strictly optional…

Simple, eh?

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