can someone describe what AJAX is?

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Marketcake

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I know theres lots of info already but a straight up answer would be nice.. reading stuff on wikipedia didnt really help me understand practically.

im good at xhtml and php, css, etc... easy shit

but javascript i fucking fail hardcore at, i know ajax is for JS but aside from that im not sure

like this page im looking at has javascript/jquery tooltip rollovers, and then it says "NEW 100% ajax version!" whats the benefit of that?
 


Asynchronous JavaScript

Allows you to update things on your site without refreshing the page. You can query the db without having to do a refresh or take the user to another page. And of course there's all those nifty cool things you can do with javascript as well like drag and drop, fading, accordion menus etc.
 
ahhh that makes lots of sense, doing things w/o refreshing the page. thats awesome. if only i knew javascript and ajax now :o
 
Marketcake said:
ahhh that makes lots of sense, doing things w/o refreshing the page. thats awesome. if only i knew javascript and ajax now :o
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start learning jquery, it makes ajax really easy. I just finished a gnarly ajax project a while back, it's pretty fucking cool actually, basically a chat room only using your facebook or twitter accounts to do the posting. all ajaxy and shiny
 
Using Ajax isn't that hard now. There are plenty of frameworks.

I'd suggest using jQuery. They have some great tutorials on their site as well. A great plugin for jQuery that makes using a lot of the common Ajax functions even easier would be Colorbox by ColorPowered.
 
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