Ajax posts

jQuery is the largest open source, cross-browser, CSS3 compliant, JavaScript library around and it has made client-side scripting a breeze.

The syntax is simple and jQuery can produce beautiful almost Flash-like animations. Unlike Flash, jQuery is viewable on iOS and it produces dynamic web pages easily.

jQuery is rapidly growing in popularity and with the recent jQuery conference held in San Francisco...

The modern web developer who does not consider Ajax when planning or building their websites is potentially missing out on a powerful tool to enhance usability.

There are however, challenges in implementing Ajax functionality on a web page.

In this article we’ll discuss solutions to five of the most common challenges that a developer faces when using Ajax to enhance the content on their website.

Although there is a lot more to discuss...

In traditional JavaScript coding, if you want to get any information from a database or a file on the server, or send user information to a server, you will have to make an HTML form and GET or POST data to the server. The user will have to click the “Submit” button to send/get the information, wait for the server to respond, and then a new page will load with the results.

Because the server returns a new page each time the user submits input, traditional web applications can run slowly and tend to be less user-friendly. With AJAX, your JavaScript communicates directly with the server, through the JavaScript XMLHttpRequest object.

With...