Ajaxy Goodness
I've been invited to participate in a panel discussion of Ajax by the Triangle User Experience group, so I figured I'd throw together a few resources on Ajax for future reference and to share.
Background and Tutorials
- Ajax: a new approach to Web applications - the Jesse James Garrett article from Adaptive Path
- Ajax: Promise or Hype?
- Ajax: The Next Generation of Web Interfaces
- JJG: Why Ajax Matters Now
- Wikipedia: AJAX
- Dynamic HTML and XML: The XMLHttpRequest Object
- Five-part IBM series on Ajax
- Weighing the alternatives: Why is Ajax getting so much attention when there are so many alternative technologies? Something about Ajax raises it above the rest.
- Ajax: getting started (Mozilla tutorial)
- HTMLSource Ajax Tutorial
- Yahoo! JavaScript Dev Center
- Ajax resources for beginners
- Ajax: is your application secure enough?
Frameworks and implementations, assorted
- COMET
- Sarissa
- Prototype (Ajax-aware Javascript framework)
- script.aculo.us (builds on Prototype)
- OpenLaszlo, an Ajax-enabled Javascript/XML UI builder
- Rico
- Dojo Toolkit
- Ajax library for ASP.NET
- Sajax (Simple Ajax Toolkit), with PHP support
- Tiny Ajax: another PHP5 Ajax Library
- CPAINT (Cross-Platform Asynchronous INterface Toolkit)
- JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), with lots of links to implementations in various languages
- Ajax with only an image (similar to how we used to do it in the Old Days
- DWR: Easy Ajax for Java
- ZK: Ajax without Javascript (?)
- Echo2 Web Framework
Weblogs
Here's another good roundup of Ajaxy JavaScript libraries and frameworks.