Ajax Technology and Examples
Below are some examples of using Ajax technology in web applications, please check back to this page as more examples will be added very soon.
Autocomplete Example
Autocomplete allows users to complete tasks more quickly by presenting
lists of options based on a few characters entered in an input field.
In this example this is for an email address
View Autocomplete example
Drag and Drop Example
This example shows a list of cities taken from the cities table in a
database. The user can drag and drop individual cities to different
positions in the list. The updated order of the cities is displayed to
the user.
View Drag and Drop example
The obvious advantage of web applications is there are no deployment issues for the users, all they need is a browser and they are ready to go. While desktop applications suffer from deployment issues they always had the advantage of more dynamic interfaces and real time interaction with the users. However, the emergence of AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) has allowed web developers to bridge this gap by offering requests to and from the server without the traditional full page refresh. Individual components can be sent to the server, processed on and returned to the user much more efficiently. Ruby on Rails, which is our preferred web development framework, includes the JavaScript libraries Prototype and Scriptaculous which aids AJAX development significantly by including Rails helper methods for common AJAX tasks.
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