AJAX is simple.... It ought to be as you can even find books titled "Teach yourself AJAX in 10 minutes". I mean even the silliest of technology learning book titles have a minimum time span of 24 hours but by jove 10 minutes?? By the way the simplicity of ajax using jmaki plugin is demostrated in the following
screencast(PS:don't feel bad, its a little screechy and 14 mins long but anyway gives an overview of jmaki and dojo). Now to the reality part, what exactly is AJAX? AJAX (asynchronous
JavaScript and
XML) isn'ta 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.
What is important to note is that it is easy to use ajax code from ajax libraries available such as those from Yahoo, Google and DOJO to name a few, but to write your own code in AJAX its humongus. The only way to be good at AJAX is "
Practice, practice and more practice".
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