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AJAX Tutorials

AJAX Tutorials are a great way to learn more coding strategies and principles of JavaScript and AJAX. Below is our collection of AJAX articles and tutorials. Also visit our AJAX Scripts section for ready to use solutions to your application's needs.

GWT Basics: AJAX Programming with Java
Prior to JavaScript and other client-side languages, Web browsers operated as if they were HTML dumb terminals, merely presenting Web pages generated on a server. For such pages, every user action requires a full page refresh, with a round-trip over the Internet, which degrades performance and thus user satisfaction. It may be fine for a great many Web sites, but it is completely inadequate for high-performance dynamic Web applications.
Monday, 10th March 2008

AJAX Accessibility for Websites
AJAX or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is an innovative way of using existing technologies to create highly interactive web applications. AJAX allows portions of the page to be updated without having to refresh and reload the entire page...
Monday, 10th March 2008

AJAX and PHP Form Processing
Alright, so I've done a little work and decided to go through this step by step, because in all actuality everything helps when you're trying to learn a new programming language. For this project, I needed a form to send an email to the client once it's been validated and checked to be ok. Sounds simple enough in PHP in fact I had it working in about 15 minutes. The only problem was, it was boring. And the user had to wait for it to be submitted then after they were sent to another page rather than the home page, and I didn't like that.
Thursday, 10th January 2008

The obligatory 'My Ajax Tutorial' Post
I posted about my battle with trying out "Ajax" last week. I learned some stuff. While there are tons of Ajax Primers out there, I figured I could have one too, since I didn't find one that would teach me quite what I wanted to do (granted, I'm *not* a Javascript expert).
Thursday, 13th December 2007

A Designer's Guide to Prototyping Ajax
Jeffery Zeldman wrote earlier this year in his essay about Web 3.0 that “Wireframing AJAX is a bitch.” And while I can’t deny the statement, I do think there are steps we can take to alleviate the pain. The problem is static XHTML/CSS wireframes are woefully inefficient at the task of communicating and documenting the features available to the new crop of Ajax web sites. Because we’ve been working on a rather intense Ajax project for the last few months, we’ve been developing and refining a number of techniques and guidelines to help our team design for Ajax by moving beyond the traditional forms of functional specs and wireframes to something a bit more appropriate for the dynamic medium—rapid prototyping.
Friday, 23rd November 2007

Ajax Wireframing Approaches
Last week we introduced the concept of prototyping as a solution to the problem of representing Ajax at the early stages of designing an interface. We talked about some general strategies and attitudes we should take when starting a project (like not being a hero and establishing good relationships with our programmers) and reviewed some fundamental XHTML and CSS skills we should have in our arsenal before beginning the prototyping process.
Friday, 23rd November 2007