AJAX tutorials

[RobG]

Here is "Round-up of 30 AJAX Tutorials" by Max Kiesler

<URL:http://www.maxkiesler.com/index.php/weblog/comments/451/>


Should answer some of the questions asked here.

<FAQENTRY>
Maybe it's time to include the term 'AJAX' in the FAQ, with some
references to a couple of the better tutorials.

There are two FAQ entries that refer to XMLHttpRequest (4.34 and 4.38)
but their titles do not clearly indicate that's what they are about.

Should there be an entry like "How does XMLHttpRequest (aka AJAX) work?"
or "What is AJAX?".

FAQ 4.34 also seems out of date, stating "In win32 IE5 and Mozilla,
there is the XMLHTTPRequest object...". There are many more browsers
that support it than those two, perhaps just removing the explicit
reference to them would be OK, e.g. "The XMLHttpRequest object...".


And maybe a reference to the emerging spec:
<URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/>

 

[Randy Webb]

RobG said the following on 4/14/2006 10:52 PM:

Here is "Round-up of 30 AJAX Tutorials" by Max Kiesler

<URL:http://www.maxkiesler.com/index.php/weblog/comments/451/>

I looked at a few of those and not all seem to need AJAX, and some just
use AJAX for the sake of being able to say "I used AJAX".

Should answer some of the questions asked here.

<FAQENTRY>
Maybe it's time to include the term 'AJAX' in the FAQ, with some
references to a couple of the better tutorials.

Yes. With some references to decent libraries (let the library war start
now).

There are two FAQ entries that refer to XMLHttpRequest (4.34 and 4.38)
but their titles do not clearly indicate that's what they are about.

Should there be an entry like "How does XMLHttpRequest (aka AJAX) work?"
or "What is AJAX?".

"What is AJAX?" and then let the entry explain XMLHTTPRequest. People
searching for AJAX won't know to search for XMLHTTPRequest.

FAQ 4.34 also seems out of date, stating "In win32 IE5 and Mozilla,
there is the XMLHTTPRequest object...". There are many more browsers
that support it than those two, perhaps just removing the explicit
reference to them would be OK, e.g. "The XMLHttpRequest object...".

Yes indeed.