Ajax tutorials, demos and applications

Applications and add-ons to Ajax of the technology.

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.

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

How to load data from another website and to display it asynchronously.The XMLHttpRequest object in its current definition is limited to the site of the Web page that uses it. A version 2 is being defined for use Ajax on several sites. But some browser have already implemented the cross-domains feature, Firefox 3.5 through the XMLHttpRequest object, Internet Explorer 8 with the XDomainRequest object.
A small scripts allow cross-domain with XHR it is explained in the first part of this article.
Part two shows how to execute a script on a remote site, to provide it data and retrieve the results to display them in Ajax.

Image Gallery

Displays automatically image when the mouse pass over them.

Lightbox

The Ajax version speeds up the display.

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.

Tutorials of technologies involved by Ajax.

XMLHttpRequest

Description of the W3C specification with some examples.

XDomainRequest

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

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?

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.

Ajax programming with NetBeans

How to build Ajax applications with this IDE.