Comments on: AJAX vs AJAX http://www.cre8d-design.com/2006/01/ajax-vs-ajax/ blog designer Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:35:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Dan York http://www.cre8d-design.com/2006/01/ajax-vs-ajax/comment-page-1/#comment-186 Dan York Mon, 09 Jan 2006 23:29:06 +0000 http://www.cre8d-design.com/wordpress/2006/01/03/ajax-vs-ajax/#comment-186 Whenever I have been asked to explain AJAX, I have simply said, "Have you played around with Google Maps? http://maps.google.com/ You know how it all just seems to magically move when you drag the cursor around? You know how you can quickly zoom in or out? That's AJAX at work... it's fast because the browser is doing most of the work and just making small requests for more data when you scroll off the visible area." As others have said, it's a combination of Javascript, XML (usually XHTML) and more. Whenever I have been asked to explain AJAX, I have simply said, “Have you played around with Google Maps? http://maps.google.com/ You know how it all just seems to magically move when you drag the cursor around? You know how you can quickly zoom in or out? That’s AJAX at work… it’s fast because the browser is doing most of the work and just making small requests for more data when you scroll off the visible area.”

As others have said, it’s a combination of Javascript, XML (usually XHTML) and more.

]]> By: Blog Relations » Blog Archive » Ajax Part 2 http://www.cre8d-design.com/2006/01/ajax-vs-ajax/comment-page-1/#comment-185 Blog Relations » Blog Archive » Ajax Part 2 Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:35:08 +0000 http://www.cre8d-design.com/wordpress/2006/01/03/ajax-vs-ajax/#comment-185 [...] After my attempt to explain what Ajax is, while at the same time admitting that I didn’t really know, I’m glad to see from the comments at Cred8 (Ajax v Ajax) that there others who admit to being in more or less the same boat. [...] [...] After my attempt to explain what Ajax is, while at the same time admitting that I didn’t really know, I’m glad to see from the comments at Cred8 (Ajax v Ajax) that there others who admit to being in more or less the same boat. [...]

]]> By: Pete... http://www.cre8d-design.com/2006/01/ajax-vs-ajax/comment-page-1/#comment-184 Pete... Tue, 03 Jan 2006 22:36:22 +0000 http://www.cre8d-design.com/wordpress/2006/01/03/ajax-vs-ajax/#comment-184 :) Thanks for that Link Rachel, I think I may suggest this to our web-apps company as at present everytime I click an item in there combo boxes it reloads the page, and it is slowly driving me to the brink... :) Thanks for that Link Rachel, I think I may suggest this to our web-apps company as at present everytime I click an item in there combo boxes it reloads the page, and it is slowly driving me to the brink…

]]> By: redstar http://www.cre8d-design.com/2006/01/ajax-vs-ajax/comment-page-1/#comment-183 redstar Tue, 03 Jan 2006 21:28:11 +0000 http://www.cre8d-design.com/wordpress/2006/01/03/ajax-vs-ajax/#comment-183 I never heard about AJAX before. Only the household cleaner AJAX and here in Holland the footbal team. I never heard about AJAX before. Only the household cleaner AJAX and here in Holland the footbal team.

]]> By: Rachel http://www.cre8d-design.com/2006/01/ajax-vs-ajax/comment-page-1/#comment-182 Rachel Tue, 03 Jan 2006 19:37:41 +0000 http://www.cre8d-design.com/wordpress/2006/01/03/ajax-vs-ajax/#comment-182 Sorry I should have given a quick explanation Pete but I am no expert on it yet (waiting for that book, heh). <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_%28programming%29" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a> helps a bit - the way I see it is a set of tools which use XML and Javascript and enable you to have some nice interactivity and rich user-interfaces without having to reload/refresh the page. Here's a nice example: <a href="http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en" rel="nofollow">Live search</a> - type some words into Google and it shows common phrases as you type. Here's a <a href="http://www.fiftyfoureleven.com/resources/programming/xmlhttprequest/examples" rel="nofollow">long list of other AJAX examples</a> :) Sorry I should have given a quick explanation Pete but I am no expert on it yet (waiting for that book, heh). Wikipedia helps a bit – the way I see it is a set of tools which use XML and Javascript and enable you to have some nice interactivity and rich user-interfaces without having to reload/refresh the page.

Here’s a nice example: Live search – type some words into Google and it shows common phrases as you type.

Here’s a long list of other AJAX examples :)

]]> By: Pete... http://www.cre8d-design.com/2006/01/ajax-vs-ajax/comment-page-1/#comment-181 Pete... Tue, 03 Jan 2006 18:24:03 +0000 http://www.cre8d-design.com/wordpress/2006/01/03/ajax-vs-ajax/#comment-181 'K, so I just read the synopsis on Rachel's book link. Is Ajax an actual system in itself with its own code/markup, or is it as simple (and by simple I mean to understand) as using JS and XML together, thus avoiding some of the endless annoyances of .NET and similar web app interfaces? ‘K, so I just read the synopsis on Rachel’s book link. Is Ajax an actual system in itself with its own code/markup, or is it as simple (and by simple I mean to understand) as using JS and XML together, thus avoiding some of the endless annoyances of .NET and similar web app interfaces?

]]> By: Pete... http://www.cre8d-design.com/2006/01/ajax-vs-ajax/comment-page-1/#comment-180 Pete... Tue, 03 Jan 2006 18:21:26 +0000 http://www.cre8d-design.com/wordpress/2006/01/03/ajax-vs-ajax/#comment-180 Matthew, I was hoping that comment would explian it for me! Is there such a thing as a simple explanation? Matthew, I was hoping that comment would explian it for me! Is there such a thing as a simple explanation?

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