http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/taxonomy/term/472/AJAX Ajax, shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is a Web development technique for creating interactive web applications. The intent is to make web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change. This is meant to increase the web page's interactivity, speed, and usability. The first known use of the term in public was by Jesse James Garrett in his February 2005 article Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications. Garrett thought of the term while in the shower, trying to solve a complex application user experience issue for a large financial services firm. At subsequent talks and seminars Garrett has made the point that Ajax is not an acronym. The Ajax technique uses a combination of: * XHTML (or HTML), CSS, for marking up and styling information. * The DOM accessed with a client-side scripting language, especially ECMAScript implementations such as JavaScript and JScript, to dynamically display and interact with the information presented. * The XMLHttpRequest object to exchange data asynchronously with the web server. In some Ajax frameworks and in certain situations, an IFrame object is used instead of the XMLHttpRequest object to exchange data with the web server. * XML is sometimes used as the format for transferring data between the server and client, although any format will work, including preformatted HTML, plain text, JSON and even EBML. en http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/content/modx-cms.html http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/content/modx-cms.html#comment-form AJAX MODx MySQL 4 MySQL 5 Website blog blog core installer online documentation web community Sat, 06 Jan 2007 12:19:01 -0800 http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/node/3219 http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/content/drupal-5-0.html http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/content/drupal-5-0.html#comment-form AJAX Blogs Community Community building Drupal Frameworks MySQL 4 MySQL 5 PHP4 PHP5 Website blocks management blog category management comment on content content permission management contribute content core installer design templates extension installer forum friendly URLs mod_rewrite multiple blogs multiple sites rss agreggator rss feeds template manager throttle Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:01:05 -0800 http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/node/3155 http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/content/prado.html-0 http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/content/prado.html-0#comment-form AJAX Frameworks PHP5 internal model-view-controller internal template engine Fri, 13 Oct 2006 22:32:45 -0700 http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/node/3053 http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/content/seagull.html http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/content/seagull.html#comment-form AJAX Frameworks PHP4 PHP5 internal model-view-controller internal template engine object-relational mapping Fri, 16 Jun 2006 06:42:08 -0700 http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/node/3051 http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/content/php-on-trax.html http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/content/php-on-trax.html#comment-form Apache webserver AJAX Frameworks PHP5 internal model-view-controller irc channel mailing lists object-relational mapping online documentation web community Fri, 16 Jun 2006 06:05:19 -0700 http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/node/3054 http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/content/zoop.html http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/content/zoop.html#comment-form AJAX Frameworks PHP4 PHP5 internal model-view-controller internal template engine Fri, 16 Jun 2006 04:03:04 -0700 http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/node/3055 http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/content/symfony.html http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/content/symfony.html#comment-form AJAX Frameworks PHP5 irc channel mailing lists web community Fri, 16 Jun 2006 01:44:18 -0700 http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/node/3050 http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/content/cakephp.html http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/content/cakephp.html#comment-form ADOdb AJAX Frameworks MySQL 4 PHP4 PHP5 PostGreSQL cache to database cache to file system internal model-view-controller irc channel mailing lists object-relational mapping Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:05:35 -0700 http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/node/3048