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Tech Titans Support Ajax
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04/26/2006, By GovTech.net
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According to an IBM press release in February, a prominent group of computer industry vendors and Internet-based businesses are supporting an initiative to make it easier for an open-source community to form and popularize Ajax.
Ajax is a fast-growing open client technology that businesses are incorporating into their external and internal Web sites to simplify the browsing experience, and make it easier for users to shop, work, plan, correspond and navigate online.
Ajax -- short for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML -- is a type of "Rich Internet Application." It enables Web innovations, including:
1. The ability to update portions of a Web page without refreshing the entire screen. This can, for example, enable users to scroll through a virtual map or photographs without refreshing their browser screens. It can also enable calendars to pop up when a user mouses over a date in an email.
2. Determining, on the fly, that information typed into a Web screen is appropriate -- such as when entering information on an order form. This can eliminate the delay and frustration of submitting an online form, only to have the server flag mistakes one at a time.
3. Dragging and dropping of objects inside a Web browser similar to the capabilities available on computer desktops to move folders and documents around. A rich set of buttons, icons, scroll bars, menus and widgets that can ease and speed navigation, as well as simplify information retrieval.
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