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Originally Posted by ChicagoDrew
Was wondering what the difference between them? I have heard of css and php but not ajax (which might be wrong). I was talking with a guy last night at a REI club and his parntner does this guys website. ( one of thse guys that doesn't like to leave virtual realty  ) Anyway he mentioned that his sight has ajax and php. I asked him about ajax cause I hadn't heard it before. his explination was: click and grab then drag to where you want it. I had bought some website design software a few weeks abo and the only thing clos to ajax I see on the box about about what the software has was jsp.
So since most of you guys on here are website and desigh gurus I thought I would ask about it. |
Hi Drew,
There is much confusion about ajax. Let's see if I can clear it up a little. The term ajax is often used interchangeably with WEB 2. Simply stated, the purpose of WEB 2 is to make web pages and web applications interactive and to act, feel and look more like desktop applications. Originally, Ajax was the combination of XML and javascript now it used to describe most any server side or client side programming (php, ruby, java, css, xml, javascript, flash, etc) that moves the web to WEB 2. A main feature of Ajax is smooth transition of information without refreshing the page, i.e, multi-page forms, accordion effect, etc (see my site). Another is special effects some of which rival flash. I have some examples of Ajax/Web2 at
Realty Vissions dot com (There was a recent server hack so not everything is back to working).
My main focus is Ajax/Web2 and I am considering GPLing a listing management program that can be ajaxified. Ajax or WEB 2 is the next big thing, all major players (Google, MS, IBM, Sun, Yahoo, etc) are heavily invested.
Update: I have a draft of an Ajax driven template where the pages are loaded without a page refresh.
realty vissions dot com / template.php