Ajax or the new interaction of web applications
New programming techniques allow of individual data exchange with the server:
- GoogleMail reports without reload when new messages have arrived.
- Writely, the online word processing programme, opens contact menus after right click.
- Google Maps zooms maps without resending the entire request to the server.
- The web is more and more turning into an application, offering look & feel of programmes locally installed on the PC.
- The secret is the new technology called Ajax.
- Ajax stands for „Asynchronous JavaScript and XML“.
- The combination of these two techniques allows the exchange of only specifically requested data between browser and server.
- Ajax provides for new contents on the website without having to completely reload it.
- The traditional web organisation in sites is taken over by new web applications as fast as desktop software.
- In addition, Ajax enables the mixing up of different web offers since data can derive from diverse sources.
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| The AJAX principle (According to O’Reilly: Web 2.0 for Participation). |
(According to O’Reilly: Web 2.0 for Participation)