Internet Methodologies Journal And News

If you’ve been in the internet world for sometime, you might have bumped in the word AJAX. No, it’s not the European Soccer team but it’s a new web development tool that has been the craze for millions of web developers.
Every training center and computer schools are scrambling to learn this new software so that [...]

Advantages to using AJAX
There are quite a few advantages to AJAX, but all of them center around the above point: usability. AJAX provides a way for the user to interact with a website without refreshing, and furthermore, without any browser plug-ins.
There’s currently a war going on, many people may be missing this, but it’s a [...]

The disadvantages of AJAX are:

Search engines would not be able to index an AJAX application.
The server information can not be accessed within AJAX.
AJAX is not well integrated with any browser.
ActiveX requests are enabled only in IE 5 and IE6
Data of all requests is URL-encoded which increases the size of the request

While there are a number of advantages to using Ajax, there are also some disadvantages as well. One of the main reasons why people support it is the interface. Those who use pages with Ajax will find that they operate more like an application rather than a standalone program. With normal web pages, users will [...]

AJAX is a term used to describe an approach to designing and implementing web applications. It is an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. The term was first introduced in an article by Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path, a web-design firm based out of San Francisco. He conceived of the term when he realized [...]

What is Ajax?
Ajax is a way of developing Web applications that combines:

XHTML and CSS standards based presentation
Interaction with the page through the DOM
Data interchange with XML and XSLT
Asynchronous data retrieval with XMLHttpRequest
JavaScript to tie it all together

In the traditional Web application, the interaction between the customer and the server goes like this:

Customer accesses Web application
Server [...]