Published on 2006-02-19 18:20:47
We are still using today the same browsers with the same standards HTML, Javascript, CSS, XML, … the difference between today and one year ago is the way we interact between these technologies. Personaly in the previous years I focused too much on server side technology and to be more precise on PHP as a scripting language and all kind of databases Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL …, but the client side programming was very simple such some validations, small scripts here and there, nothing really impressive.
Maybe the first time I used XMLHttpRequest was three years ago with a live search that I have written in phptunisie.net, in that time we just call it Javascript. Then I was inspired by some websites like for examples Orkut which is using a very nice rating pages, where you can rate your friends with images, no forms, no submit buttons, just by choosing the suitable image and its saved. I used similar techniques in some of my websites but with iframes, and it start giving me a larger vision of interactions inside the website that we rarely used before. Then there was Gmail and you should know the rest…
The word AJAX itself isn's something new or a new technology but something that we were using before. So what was new in the word AJAX ?Read More
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