AJAX Frameworks

If you are starting off programming AJAX and don't know what platform, language to use, This page is a good place to start. It gives you details on the various frameworks available for AJAX programmers.

Ofcourse, you need to choose a Framework that suits you, your server, feature requirements and whether the framework has been around for sometime and doesn't leave you hanging in the middle of your project.

Script.aculo.us: How to easily AJAX your site

Script.aculo.us is an amazing framework for enriching your website's user experience very easily. Built on top of the very popular prototype javascript framework, scriptaculous makes AJAX cake, and gives everyone the power to have a sexy AJAX-powered website, yes everyone. Scriptaculous is a tiny (140kb) javascript framework that gives you the power of effects, several dynamic data components, and all you need to know is a little bit about HTML and how to read. If you already have your own website, it is not hard to do. Follow these steps to AJAX up your site in no time:

Downloadsquad has the instructions

AJAX for beginners

Take a look on the net and you'll see endless pages of AJAX Frameworks: libraries which promise to do all the trivial and dirty AJAX work for you, leaving you free to code without actually understanding how the application you're writing really works. So lets pull back the smoke and mirrors and see what AJAX is and why it's just a simple evolution of client/server tricks Javascript programmers have been doing since the web was born.

Simply put, AJAX is a method for your javascript programs to talk to your server and send and request data. There's nothing particularly new about this. Javascript programmers have been communicating with the server in the background ever-since the FRAME tag became available. So we'll begin learning about AJAX by learning how things were done before AJAX became buzzworthy. The first thing to do is to set up an iframe somewhere on the page.

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Using Ajax from Perl

This one is a old article but does teach you how to use do AJAX with perl

AJAX Cookbook - recipes for interactive webapps!

Brett Taylor presents for your coding pleasure - AJAX cookbook! He is a Senior Product Manager at Google and founded/launched Google Maps

Read the recipes !

Qlock - another world clock

Qlock offers you a world clock to download and a AJAX based world clock to view which you can add to your site

Gotapi - the AJAX technical reference

Gotapi lets you search technical references of various languages through an AJAX interface.

Handy! Go here

AJAX jukebox

Lshift has developed a AJAX based jukebox.

You will need Erlang, Yaws (the Erlang webserver), a modern browser, mpg123, ogg123 (from vorbis-tools) to install the application

Download and read more

Flickr Mashup - Retrievr

Retrievr is a Flickr mashup. But, what it does is quite interesting - lets you search for images by drawing a rough "Sketch" or uploading images.

Try it out - its nice

Ajax based domain name registration

Domjax.com is a domain name registration site with a difference. Well, its based on AJAX. You can find domain names, validation & research tools in one single page powered by AJAX

Web 2.0 vs Web 1.0

Why Ajax is Conceptually Better

Ajax has been around for quite some time now (it is a bit more than a year ago that Jesse James Garret coined the term) and it has quite some lovers, and just as many haters. First of all let’s distinguish between two different things that are often confused when we talk about Ajax.What many think to be Ajax are really two independent things:

• Asynchronous Communication: allows fetching and sending data asynchronously, in the background.
• DOM-Manipulation: which allows all those fancy Flash-like effects on web pages, such as zooming images, floating windows, but also really basic stuff, like swapping text in boxes.

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Ajax loading gif generator

Ajaxload lets you generate Ajax loading gifs like the one above!