Monday, May 16, 2005

Some thoughts about AJAX

Ajax architecture has been pretty impressive at the first sight , and after having a look at Google Maps ,Google Suggest and the Java RSS the potential of this architecture is amazing .To have the web application behave like a rich client side app will no doubt be good and also is one of the takeaway AJAX gives us (we do owe it Microsoft for XHTMLRequest ) .

A couple of examples tried out with Validation using AJAX showed plenty of promise For a website to be more responsive and to avoid multiple requests to the servers AJAX can be used effectively by caching information which is typically done during validation of input fields.Also since you do not have to refresh the entire page this would also improve usability. It does not end here alongside validation , we can have features like auto completion (Google Suggest ) uses this and then there is autocompletion , autorefresh etc..