Anyone developing web applications in the “old days” (pre-2003 or thereabouts) would be all too familiar with the JavaScript alert() function; it’s traditionally been much (over-)used for debugging ...

In modern web development, AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a technique that allows web applications to communicate with a server asynchronously, retrieving and sending data without ...

Businesses running data-intensive Web applications need Web pages that can update incrementally. The technology to do so has been accelerated since 2005, with the advent of open standards such as AJAX ...

Where JavaScript developers were once tool-deprived, today we’re often overwhelmed with the abundance of options. In this article, Foundations of Ajax author Nathaniel T. Schutta reviews development ...

AJAX, or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, describes a Web development technique for creating interactive Web applications using a combination of HTML (or XHTML) and Cascading Style Sheets for ...

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Here’s the situation, you’re building a modern web application with all the AJAX-ey goodness users now expect, when suddenly you realize that some of your AJAX calls are not returning current data in ...

Today Microsoft released "Atlas" or what has become ASP.NET Ajax 1.0. Scott Guthrie has the big news and Mary Jo Foley here on ZDNet has some good information as always. You can go grab the framework ...

Not to be left out of any development trends, Microsoft is working to simplify the job of building so-called Ajax applications, or Web applications with sophisticated graphics. The company is building ...