So I keep hearing all this intriguing stuff about Ajax. And I keep thinking, there's got to be something really cool I could do with it.
Basically, it could replace Flash, right? A free, fast, open alternative to Flash?
Does anybody here know enough about Ajax to comment on this?
Ajax isn't anything special. Its just using JavaScript to modify an XML page in almost the same way you use JavaScript to modify an HTML page. So, basically AJAX and DHTML are the same thing, but applied to different styles of documents.
You could replace Flash with AJAX, but you could replace flash with DHTML as well. You could even write an entire database, or even an OS, if you have enough time.
I've used XmlHttpRequest multiple times doing page updates and such. I didn't know that was all it took to be "using" AJAX. Why did they even come up with the acronym AJAX in the first place? It looks to me like some marketing gimmic. Oh well.
Okay, dumb question, and I think I might know the answer already but...
...this really doesn't apply in any way to how you would use Javascript to dynamically resize layout elements when someone resizes the window or anything like that, right? Since you don't need to get additional information from the server to do that?
You've got it, texas al. That's just regualar client-side stuff.
