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April 26, 2007
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AJAX: A Gentle Introduction

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April 26, 2007

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Transcript

  1. AJAX

  2. A gentle introduction

  3. (very gentle)

  4. None

  5. What is AJAX?

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  15. Asynchronous Javascript And XML

  16. Why?

  17. Interactive Web Apps

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  19. No need to reload pages

  20. None

  21. Less restrictive

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  23. It is more a pattern...

  24. None

  25. ...than a technology

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  27. Who? When?

  28. None

  29. The first AJAX application was Outlook Web Access

  30. None

  31. Adopted by Mozilla

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  33. And Google

  34. None
  35. None
  36. None

  37. Jesse James Garrett from Adaptive Path coined the name “AJAX”

  38. None

  39. New technology?

  40. (not really)

  41. None

  42. HTML + CSS

  43. None

  44. DOM

  45. None

  46. XMLHttpRequest

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  48. JavaScript...

  49. None

  50. ...acting as the glue

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  52. What for?

  53. Real-time form validation

  54. None

  55. Auto-completion

  56. Master-detail views

  57. ... sophisticated UIs

  58. None

  59. Happy users

  60. None
  61. None
  62. None
  63. None

  64. How?

  65. None

  66. HTTP requests in the background

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  68. (lots of them)

  69. Asynchronously

  70. None

  71. Callbacks in JavaScript

  72. None

  73. readyState == 4 && request.status == 200

  74. None

  75. responseText responseXml

  76. None

  77. Interactions

  78. None
  79. None
  80. None

  81. Problems?

  82. Back button

  83. None

  84. Bookmarks

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  86. Confusing user experience

  87. None

  88. More JavaScript!

  89. None

  90. Difficult to debug

  91. None

  92. Viewable source

  93. None

  94. Browser support?

  95. Internet Explorer 5+

  96. None

  97. Mozilla Opera 9+ Apple Safari

  98. Web 2.0?

  99. None

  100. AJAX ≠ Web 2.0

  101. AJAX < Web 2.0

  102. AJAX = Core feature of Web 2.0

  103. None

  104. Web as a platform Collective intelligence Multiple devices Rich user

    experience

  105. Future?

  106. None
  107. None
  108. None
  109. None
  110. None
  111. None

  112. Books?

  113. None
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  118. And one more thing...

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  120. Thank you!

  121. Questions?