2 Responses to “ajax”

1. 1 Richard   — Hong Kong (definitely maybe)
   Nov 22nd, 2005 at 4:41 pm

   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?

2. 2 Phil   — Hong Kong (definitely maybe)
   Nov 23rd, 2005 at 10:18 pm

   From a developer’s point of view it is the dog’s kahoonas.

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