Technologies

AJAX

AJAX is a technology used to create modern websites and services that don't require pages reloading.

AJAX acronym stands for “Asynchronous Javascript and XML”. Although communication with server is not always using XML-format, it could be any format.

AJAX web interfaces are known for simplicity and speed.

Advantages:

• Interface fast response time;
• Traffic economy, server load is reduced.

Disadvantages:

• Dynamic content is not indexed by search engines (but there're work-arounds).

Related links:

• Wikipedia about AJAX ;
• JS-libraries, used to create AJAX:
  • Mootools ;
  • jQuery ;
  • Prototype ;
  • Adobe Spry ;
  • ExtJS ;
  • script.aculo.us ;
  • dojo .