Friday, August 12, 2005

A Web Revolution - AJAX

I have been using Google Maps , Gmail. I just got started on Orkut. A lot of talk has been going around on the fundamental changes that are going on the Internet. The most noticeable was the usability of web applications. Google has been able to deliver lightning fast access to mail with some of the cleverst use of Javascripts.



Defining Ajax

Ajax isn’t a technology. It’s really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways. Ajax incorporates:

* standards-based presentation using XHTML and CSS;
* dynamic display and interaction using the Document Object Model;
* data interchange and manipulation using XML and XSLT;
* asynchronous data retrieval using XMLHttpRequest;
* and JavaScript binding everything together.

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