What Is AJAX?
November 12, 2008 Paul Tuohy
If you happen to dabble with any sort of Web development (or even if you don’t), you have probably heard of Asynchronous JavaScript and Extensible Mark-up Language (XML)–better known as AJAX. Depending on who you talk to AJAX is either “another flash in the pan” or “the greatest thing since sliced bread.” As usual, the truth probably falls somewhere in between. In this, the first of two articles, I want to discuss what AJAX is and why you might want to use it. In the following article I will give a simple example of using AJAX with an RPG CGIDEV2 |