Ajax, short for asynchronous JavaScript and XML, allows websites to retrieve data from the server asynchronously behind the scenes, without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page. Check out Ajax news, tips and tutorials here.
Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
Ryan Breen has written up a detailed post on Circumventing browser connection limits for fun and profit in which he discusses the old-fashion limits of 2 connections per HTTP/1.1 per host, and the benefit you get from a simple CNAME hack. The average load time when using 2 connections is 7.919 seconds. The average load Read the rest…
Saturday, December 16th, 2006
Bret Taylor is the guy who is responsible for the first Google Maps. He obvi0usly has a lot of experience, and has recently been on fire with a new blog called the Ajax Cookbook. The blog focuses on small useful JavaScript snippets that do not assume a particular JavaScript/Ajax library, so they can be generally Read the rest…
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
Category: Ajax, Framework
, PHP
symfony, the popular PHP Ajax framework, has released a beta of their 1.0 framework. New Features in 1.0 Easier installation and larger compatibility. Symfony is now compatible with magic_quotes_gpc set to on and PHP 5.2. Pake and phing are now bundled with the core classes, so symfony has no more external dependency. It is very Read the rest…
Thursday, November 16th, 2006
Category: Ajax, JavaScript
, Library
Daniel Kantor has implemented a Back button solution in Streampad and has shared it with us. One of the main gripes against AJAX webapps is how they break the back button in a typical browser. There have been a few solutions (notably Brad Neuberg’s Really Simple History) but none have got it working in Safari. Read the rest...
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
Evil Microsoft. The client-side DOM event model in Atlas (ASP.NET Ajax Extensions) was the IE model. Atlas implemented this model for the other browsers to make it work, and many didn't like this. This has now all changed and a new API is in town. The new model for DOM events is thus introducing a Read the rest...
Thursday, October 26th, 2006
Category: Ajax, Showcase
, Utility
Jim Kern has created SSLBridge, an Ajax enabled Samba Web GUI, and has released it using the GPL open source license. SSLBridge features: Authenticates using your existing user name and password against MS Active Directory using Samba. All permissions that apply at office are also applied through SSLBridge. Can download files from computers, just like Read the rest...
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
Category: Ajax, JSON
, The Ajax Experience
Douglas Crockford of Yahoo, a pioneer of JSON, presented "JSON: The X in Ajax" at The Ajax Experience Tuesday afternoon. In the presentation, Douglas discussed his proposal for native support of a new JavaScript object named JSONRequest. The object would provide a simple API for issuing Ajax requests to exchange JSON data using the following Read the rest...
Thursday, October 5th, 2006
Richard MacManus has posted on The State Of Web Development - Ajax set to surpass Flash in '07. This is in reference to a report on the subject (free preview). The current stats are good, but take a look at the future. Ajax is here to stay. What will be the next big thing on Read the rest...
Friday, September 29th, 2006
In this blog entry, Chris Shiflett takes another look at some of the dangers that can come up with cross-site Ajax via a Flash object embedded in the page. He mentions a previous discussion where Chris points out the filename-specific nature (crossdomain.xml) of this example. Julien (author of the example) replied in the affirmative that Read the rest...
Friday, September 22nd, 2006
Category: Ajax
Dare Obasanjo pointed to Julien Couvreur's blog post that discusses a Cross-document messaging hack that both Dojo and Windows Live platform came out with: The Dojo and Windows Live Platform teams have both recently released DHTML hacks that allow two iframes in different domains to communicate, bypassing the notorious same-domain policy implemented in browsers. I'm Read the rest...
Thursday, September 21st, 2006
As companies and individuals (this means you) continue to sort out just what the big deal about Ajax is and how it can help them, they need to also look at some of the things they need to consider about its implementation into their site. Thankfully, FrontForge has created a basic list to help you Read the rest...
Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
David Arthur, like many, has had problems with the caching issue that Internet Explorer seems to have with Ajax connections: If you’ve been working with the Ajax framework long enough, i’m sure you’ve run into at least a few speed bumps thanks to Internet Explorer. Not a day goes by that i don’t have to Read the rest...
Thursday, September 7th, 2006
Ajax has changed the web. There's no doubt about that. It's made the internet a happier place to be (well, when it's used well) and has helped fuel the Web 2.0 movement to make it what it is today. But what I'm left wondering is - why? No, I'm not saying that Ajax is overrated Read the rest...
Monday, September 4th, 2006
Richard Bair of Sun Microsystems has created XMLHttpRequest and JSONHttpRequest beans, both part of the SwingX-WS project. Interestingly Richard "ased the design and implementation on the W3C Working Draft Specification for XMLHttpRequest. So the good news is, for those of you familiar with XHR, you have essentially the same API available now for your Swing Read the rest...
Saturday, September 2nd, 2006
Category: Ajax, Comet
, Games
, Google
, GWT
, Usability
Google has released Google Image Labeler, a streaming Ajax app that makes it fun to label (tag) images apparently built with GWT (via TechCrunch). It's a real-time collaborative app, where you work with an online partner, assigned by Google, to look at the same image and decide on some labels together. It works like this: Read the rest...
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
In a new posting on Evhead.com, they talk about the slow demise of something both advertisers and those monitoring a site's stats will just have to come to grips with - pageviews are obsolete. Remember when web site traffic was talked about in terms of "hits"? You'd read about how many millions of hits Netscape Read the rest...
Caching and dynamic views
My client does not want to change his cache settings on IE and I'm trying to figure out a way to dynamically update a view each time it is visited. I...
IE 8 Crashing Problem
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Here\'s the situation:
two iSeries boxes - Dev and Prod both V5R4M0
We\'re using AJAX to dynamically load content using a tabbed...
JQuery Function Not Defined?
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[div]I\'m trying to set a php session variable from a radio button. The idea is that a jquery function is called...
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