ajax: what is it?

Question

What is ajax used for? Where online can I learn how to use or develop it?

Answer 1

I don't think any of these answerers actually use ajax. I do!

I learned it the hard way from w3c standards and mozilla websites. I wrote some cute apps, then discovered the easy way to do it!

I use http://jquery,com and ajax is now very easy!

Ajax is often critiqued by people who abuse it. One of the simplest uses is the up thumbs on yahoo answers!

so head on over to http://jquery.com and be prepared to re-learn everything you know about JavaScript!

Answer 2

Ajax is a a tool for programming websites. It's main feature is to allow you to load or save information on a page without refreshing the page or sending the user to another page.

Learning it will depend on the language you use to build websites. Do you used .net, coldfusion, php? You need to look up how to use Ajax with those particular languages, but mainly you need to know javascript since that is what you will use to make your initial calls.

Answer 3

it stands for 'asynchronous javascript and xml', and what it means is that instead of refreshing the whole page to do a search, the site can just refresh part of the page, and not have to reload the whole page (e.g. a post-back).

it's used to create a better/smoother user-experience, and also saves on bandwidth.

you can do ajax with the XmlHttpRequest javascript object directly, but there's also frameworks out there (prototype, scriptaculous, etc) that add extra functionality.

a good example of ajax is the google map: http://maps.google.com

Answer 4

It's the name of one of the dudes from the movie "The Warriors". [clicking beer bottles together] "Waaaarrrrrriiiorsss, come out to pla-ay! ".

Answer 5

yea that was a stupid question! by the way does anyone know what comet is?........... lmfao you dork!