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Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) is a method, or model, of using existing technologies in combination together. These include: HTML or XHTML, Cascading Style Sheets, JavaScript, The Document Object Model, XML, XSLT, and XMLHttpRequest. When these technologies are combined in the AJAX model, web applications have the ability to make fast, incremental updates to the user interface without reloading the entire browser page, thus the application becomes quicker and more responsive to user actions.

The following are AJAX Articles and Tutorials hosted and linked from Mozilla.org that will help you learn how to use and code with the AJAX model. These will teach you and show you how to use many useful AJAX coding techniques.


AJAX: Getting Started
   1 What's AJAX?
   2 Step 1 – say "Please!" or How to Make an HTTP Request
   3 Step 2 – "There you go!" or Handling the Server Response
   4 Step 3 – "All together now!" - A Simple Example
   5 Step 4 – "The X-Files" or Working with the XML Response


AJAX: Community
AJAX: Other Resources
A Simpler Ajax Path (external)
AJAX Patterns: Design Patterns for AJAX Usability (external)
AJAX and scripting Web services with E4X, Part 1 (external)
AJAX and scripting Web services with E4X, Part 2 (external)
AJAX with JavaScript disabled (external)
ARIA: Accessible Rich Internet Applications
Ajax Mistakes (external)
Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications (external)
Core JavaScript 1.5 Guide
Core JavaScript 1.5 Reference
Fixing the Back Button and Enabling Bookmarking for AJAX Apps (external)
Guide to Using XMLHttpRequest (external)
Guide to Using XMLHttpRequest (with Baby Steps) (external)
How to create a DOM tree
Key-navigable custom DHTML widgets
Online and offline events
Parsing and serializing XML
Using XPath
Very Dynamic Web Interfaces (external)
XMLHttpRequest
XMLHttpRequest at XULPlanet (external)
nsIJSXMLHttpRequest at XULPlanet (external)
nsIXMLHttpRequest at XULPlanet (external)
nsIXMLHttpRequest.idl (LXR) (external)


AJAX Tutorials and Techniques

AJAX:Getting Started
This article guides you through the AJAX basics and gives you two simple hands-on examples to get you started.

Alternate Ajax Techniques
Most articles on Ajax have focused on using XMLHttp as the means to achieving such communication, but Ajax techniques are not limited to just XMLHttp. There are several other methods.

Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications
Jesse James Garrett, of adaptive path, wrote this article in February 2005, introducing AJAX and its related concepts.

A Simpler Ajax Path
"As it turns out, it's pretty easy to take advantage of the XMLHttpRequest object to make a web app act more like a desktop app while still using traditional tools like web forms for collecting user input."

Fixing the Back Button and Enabling Bookmarking for AJAX Apps
Mike Stenhouse has penned this article, detailing some methods you can use to fix back button and bookmarking issues when developing AJAX applications.

Ajax Mistakes
Alex Bosworth has written this article outlining some of the mistakes AJAX application developers can make.

AJAX Tutorial with examples.

XMLHttpRequest specification
W3C Working draft


More AJAX Articles and Tutorials:

Ajax IE caching issue
What is So Special About AJAX
Is Ajax development slowing down
Biggest AJAX problem
Surveying open-source AJAX toolkits
Live Filter - Reinvesting Search
Declarative AJAX Components and XML Namespaces`
Optimizing Page Load Time
Integrating Maps into Your Java Web Application with Google Maps and Ajax
Cybercrooks add Ajax coding Ajax File uploads to Amazon S3
How to create the Google Suggest feature with ASP.NET 2.0
Building a Pagination System with AJAX
Asynchronous file upload with AJAX progress bar in PHP
ajaxload - Ajax loading gif generator
AJAX Activity Indicators How to Create a Basic JavaScript Drag and Drop Functionality


AJAX: Tools

AJAX Debugging Tool (external)
Firebug Firefox extension (external)
Flash / AJAX Integration Kit (external)
Flash / AJAX Integration Kit Example (external)


XMLHttpRequest

XMLHttpRequest
Guide to Using XMLHttpRequest (external)
XMLHttpRequest at XULPlanet (external)
XMLHttpRequest changes for Gecko1.8
nsIJSXMLHttpRequest at XULPlanet (external)
nsIXMLHttpRequest at XULPlanet (external)
nsIXMLHttpRequest.idl (LXR) (external)

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