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.
Friday, April 8th, 2011
Category: Ajax, Performance
, Testing
With Google and their apps like Search, Docs or GMail only a very small time is actually spent in the initial page load, writes Andreas Grabner in a recent blog post. Of course, much time is spent in JavaScript, XHR Calls and DOM Manipulations triggered by user actions. Grabner writes: It is very important to Read the rest…
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
There is a lot of solid support for cross-domain Ajax in modern web browsers, yet most developers are still unaware of this powerful capability. Usage requires just a little bit of extra JavaScript work and a little extra server-side work to ensure that the correct headers are being sent. IE8’s implementation lags a bit behind Read the rest…
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
Weston Ruter wants to talk to the search robots out there and tell them about the URL format for crawling Ajax apps. Google came out with a spec for doing this with hash bang URLs such as: http://shepherdinteractive.com/#!portfolio/interactive/. What if we could tell Google and others something like: < View plain text > HTML <meta Read the rest…
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Category: Ajax
Kyle Scholz has brought up the topic of progressive response handling in XHR: Perhaps it’s subtle, but the draft spec for XMLHttpRequest calls for support for progressive response handling: 4.7.6 The responseText attribute The responseText attribute must return the result of running these steps: 1. If the state is not LOADING or DONE return the Read the rest…
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Category: Ajax
A lot of great news is coming in via Twitter. I make a lot of Ajax comments under @dalmaer and wanted to give you a roundup on the month of October via Tweets. Always interesting to take a glance at the month. What do you think? Firefox 3.6 beta 1 is here. Full screen video, Read the rest…
Monday, August 24th, 2009
Category: Ajax, Ajaxian.com Announcements
, Conferences
, The Ajax Experience
This Friday, August 28 marks the $100 off early-bird deadline for The Ajax Experience conference, September 14-16 in Boston, MA. Friday is your last chance to save $100 off the registration fee. Visit the conference site to register now! Below is the latest agenda at-a-glance with over 40 essential sessions, case studies, interactive panels and insightful Read the rest…
Category: Ajax
Piers Lawson has come up with an interesting new technique for cross domain communication using an iframe and not having to poll the location for a #hashchange: Most articles on using the URL Fragment technique advocate the target iFrame polling its Location to detect changes in the fragment… perhaps checking 5 times a second. Julien Read the rest…
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
Category: Ajax
The Mullet: Business up front, party in the rear Kyle has take the XHR API that we all know and…. wrap…. and married it with a JSON-P transport to make jXHR. He tells us more: I’ve put out a very simple little project called jXHR which does cross-domain Ajax via JSON-P calls (meaning, totally javascript Read the rest…
Sunday, July 12th, 2009
Category: Ajax, Conferences
, The Ajax Experience
Ajaxian.com’s The Ajax Experience gives you access to over 40 sessions presented by framework founders, independent experts and development leaders – all focused on proven solutions for current and emerging challenges plaguing Ajax developers, like performance, cross-browser rendering, security and architecture. Register Now for The Ajax Experience! September 14-16 in Boston, MA. Keynote presentations examine Read the rest…
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Category: Ajax, Ajaxian.com Announcements
, Conferences
, The Ajax Experience
“When the heck are you guys going to open registration for The Ajax Experience this year!?” Over the last 3 months that is, without question, the most frequently received email we’ve had from Ajaxian members like you. The good news is that the wait is finally over! Registration has officially opened for this year’s Ajax Read the rest…
Thursday, May 21st, 2009
Category: Ajax, JavaScript
, Performance
Micah Snyder of Digg posted on DUI.Stream, an experimental library that implements a multipart XHR technique to bundle resources into one request and then breaks them out at the other end: One of the ways that high-performance websites like Yahoo suggest speeding up load times is by reducing the number of HTTP requests per page. Read the rest…
Friday, May 15th, 2009
Category: Ajax
Why choose which Ajax framework you can use, when you can let The Machine tell you! Jim Briggs of Athenz has pointed his decision machine at the age old problem of choosing which darn library to script src! Here is what Jim told us about the new service: There has been some discussion lately on Read the rest…
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Category: Ajax
Matt Raible has posted on the analysis the he has done for a client on choosing an Ajax framework. This is the age old question “which Ajax framework should I use?” It is agonizing. It is hard. It isn’t pretty. We created a dartboard: Matts take compares Dojo, Ext JS, GWT, and YUI using various Read the rest…
Monday, April 6th, 2009
Category: Ajax
Launched in June, 2007, AjaxRain.com has continued its steady growth of aggregating awesome extensions for the popular JavaScript frameworks. It was a late starter coming after the popular site MiniAjax but while MiniAjax unfortunately stopped updates, AjaxRain continued loading up with top scripts from around the web. Currently listing 1200+ scripts, it has become the Read the rest…
Monday, March 9th, 2009
Category: Ajax, Ajaxian.com Announcements
, Conferences
, The Ajax Experience
We’re seeking a few good technologists and speakers for The Ajax Experience 2009, to be held in Boston on September 14-16, 2009. If you have experience with frameworks, techniques, or technologies that drive high performance Web applications, or build frameworks or other tools to enable the creation or test of Ajax applications, take a look Read the rest…
Monday, February 2nd, 2009
I enjoy the US show Chuck (maybe because a geeky guy gets to hang with a beautiful woman? :) and there is a 3D episode to launch their new season. Our 2009 Ajax season relaunches an old favourite meme, the Ajax loaders (e.g. ajaxload.info) with a new 3D special. Timur Gafforov has given us Preloaders Read the rest…
In Episode 25, we chat about IE 8, standards, Acid3, server side JavaScript, and more.
