Ajax

For a programmer of the Web 2.0, Ajax is the main part of the library. For a Web application on a modern site, Ajax allows to build a smooth interface and update instantaneously the content.

Ajax scripts

Add-ons to Ajax and application of the technology.

Extensions

ResponseHTML

Why not also the responseHTML attribute? But this is not a problem, this feature may be added easily to Ajax.

Ajax Extensible Page

A framework to build web pages the reader can expand for details.

Cross-sites Ajax

Cross-sites Ajax: Part one

How to load data from another website and to display it asynchronously.

Cross-sites Ajax: Part two

How to execute a script on a remote site, to provide it data and retrieve the results to display them in Ajax.

Applications

Image Gallery

Displays automatically image when the mouse pass over them.

Dynamic Select

With JavaScript, the content of lists and menus, the select form tag, may be changed dynamically. Ajax can also save the modified list and load it at a later session.

Demonstrations

Examples et demos

Ajax demos

These demos are designed as templates you can use to start your own Web pages.
How to get info about a file on the server, how to interact with the server through Ajax, and more.

Tutorials

Tutorials of technologies involved by Ajax.

Ajax and components

XMLHttpRequest

Description of the W3C specification with some examples.

JavaScript, HTML and DOM

Interactive JavaScript tutorial and case studies.
Main methods of DOM, the standard interface to XML documents and HTML web pages.

Ajax tutorial

Complete tutorial, how to interface JavaScript and XMLHttpRequest for updating a Web page.
Examples with text and XML.

Ajax and PHP

What is the relationship between Ajax en PHP?

Other formats

JSON tutorial

JSON is another format to save data on the server that can be retrieved by Ajax, it is structured but simpler than XML.

XDomainRequest

A new object created by Microsoft to exchange data between websites. Could be a successor to XMLHttpRequest.

Tools

Ajax programming with NetBeans

How to build Ajax applications with this IDE.

More infos and resources

Frameworks.
Best libraries for adding Ajax to its website.
Why use Ajax?
Advantages and disadvantages.
Ajax FAQ.
Firefox 3
With cross-domain XMLHttpRequest and persistence of data, the browser will make a move to the RIA field. Ajax will run offline and applications will use the browser as an operating system.

Licence: (c) 2006-2008 Xul.fr. You are free to use the code of the demos to motorize your site.
Please do not put the demos on another website. You can also print the code and distribute it for educational purpose.