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 .