AJAX for Designers

shared by: shared123 on: Thursday, July 29, 2010

For some AJAX is marketing speak for something that hasbeen around for years. For others, it is the salvation they have been looking for, for seemingly centuries. I would tell the former group that the latter group finally caught up, and you should revel in the growth of your new community and accept them with open arms. Snobbery really won't help anyone.Recently Jesse James Garrett from Adaptive Path wrote an article for the duo at Ok-Cancel called "Why AJAX Matters Now". As usual Jesse is insightful and dead on about why AJAX has arrived. More aptly I would say that Jesse describes well why the world is now ready for AJAX where earlier uses of the same technology had really no chance of taking off. Jesse does still speak of AJAX's arrival in his article, and while it is not such an important distinction, I would like to correct him and say that AJAX (as our former group notes above) has been around for a while, and that other environmental variables have been put in place to make AJAX consumable.

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Embedded Ajax 2

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Why Embedded Ajax? Advanced Web browsers with PC-like browsing capabilities are becoming increasingly popular on mobile devices. This growing popularity means that Web 2.0 applications that use Ajax will also soon become popular throughout the mobile world. It is important to note that Ajax is not only an asynchronous data retrieval technique using XMLHttpRequest, it is also a method for utilizing a narrow bandwidth and limited memory to its maximum extent. In other words, Ajax can reduce the amount of data transferred between a Web server and client device, which, in theory, means that it should be possible to use the same Web 2.0 applications for PCs and for mobile devices. This directly brings into question the need for an "Embedded Ajax" solution specifically adapted for mobile devices. Wouldn't using Ajax to build Web applications for mobile devices be enough?

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MX AJAX Toolbox

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Introduction This white paper will introduce you to MX AJAX Toolbox, a Dreamweaver extension developed by InterAKT Online. It will briefly present:  What MX AJAX Toolbox is and what you can do with it.  How web developers would benefit from MX AJAX Toolbox  Top features of MX AJAX Toolbox.  Some conclusions about the product's market potential and its future. Web developers and designers can use MX AJAX Toolbox to:  Build AJAX websites from scratch.  Update legacy websites with interactive AJAX controls and widgets. The product provides a visual environment for Rapid Application Development in AJAX, which does not require JavaScript programming skills. The extension can be used with the PHP_MySQL and PHP_ADODB server models, with static HTML sites.

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