AJAX and Javascript Development

We at Solunanet are very excited about what are quickly becoming known as AJAX technologies. This is a area of web browser scripting that allows a web developer, or anyone thinking of building a feature rich website or web application, to escape the limiting and slow click , wait, load page routine.

AJAX is a term coined by adaptive path. But the technology itself isn\'t owned by anyone, but rather is just a group of programming methods involving sending and receiving page updates and data from the server without reloading the majority of the current page. Joining this capability with the Javascript data exchange method called JSON, allows data returned from the server to be natively interpreted by the web browser. How and what it does is up to you since can be used to update any area of the page. The same routine makes it much easier to send complex data structures back to the server for processing.

If this sounds like greek you\'ll be more familiar with the technology from using it everyday on sites like google maps, gmail, yahoo mail. We have fully integrating support for it in our own SimpleMod development tool and a number of other current development projects.

We hope to have the opportunity to talk to you about how these technologies could help give your website or application the edge in the new rich media web market.