02 Nov 08 FJAX The Flash Based Ajax
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AHAX, an HTML version of Ajax provides almost the same functionality however, does not have the really cool features of JavaScript. It goes to use HTML so that it could render XML in the webpage. It is really simple and looked better compared to simple HTML but I think it defeats the purpose of being a great alternate to Ajax since it does not offer the exact RIA that we are looking for in Ajax. Now another alternate to Ajax is steadily getting a buzz. I checked them out and it is pretty impressive when you take a look at their example. Although I have only seen the theoretical side of this programming technique, it looks very promising. FJAX stands for Flash JavaScript and XML and although it replaces the A for Asynchronous, it still offers the same behavior you would expect from an Ajax based website. (more…)
02 Nov 08 Beginning Ajax and ASP.NET 3.5
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Ajax is a great helper to us while developing rapid applications without worrying us at power of asynchronous. In Visual Web Developer 2008 comes with built in Atlas and ASP.NET3.5 . In this tutorial, I try to show you what’s ajax and database querying at same time. Now let’s build our scene. Open an empty web site and dop a ScriptManager and UpdatePanel from Ajax Extensions tab. Close the tab and open standard controls and drop one textbox and one button. Place a label inside ajax control and one more outside of UpDatePanel. The second label will display that we are using Ajax and page is not posting back. I will add some hard codes and I have put s SqlDataSource and a GridView. Complete code is included (more…)
02 Nov 08 Google and Ajax
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Introduction In a recent article, reporter and web developer Sean Michael Kerner declared “The AJAX World Belongs to Google”. This article refers to the dominance of Ajax in Google’s web applications and how Google’s continued incorporation of Ajax techniques is bringing Ajax to the mainstream. Ajax is an acronym for “Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. By collaborating the functions of various pre-exist (more…)
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02 Nov 08 Formula for Ajax Failure
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Ajax is still going strong and the hype will never go down unless a new and a better technique is coming up. So far, what we have seen are variation of Ajax – FJAX, AHAX and SAJAX. Although they are innovation by themselves, we cannot help but thinking that these innovations happened because of Ajax. We just have to wait a little bit for the next big thing. For now we have to work a little bit better for Ajax’s development. In this state, the developers still has a lot of things to understand to build a highly efficient Ajax based website. There are so many pitfalls in Ajax and one flaw will mean an unsecured website open for all hackers to exploit. (more…)
