When *not to* use AJAX

July 14th, 2006 A free 10-week "AJAX Programming" online course is about to start from August 4th, 2006. This course is for anyone who wants to learn AJAX for the first time or increase their knowledge on AJAX.

March 10th, 2006 Microsoft unveils Windows Live portal and search interface which is like good 'ol excite.com on AJAX diet and some more. The key features are: Search results allows controlling the level of details using a scrollbar Results can be scrolled using a scrollbar and fetched live with AJAX.

February 17th, 2006 Yahoo released an UI library for web applications, developed using Javascript and AJAX. It provides some nifty components like dual-calendar, tree, drag-and-drop, slidedrs etc.

October 22nd, 2005 Here are some amazing AJAX powered Web Services ranked as I like them. The list includes online word processor, spreadsheet, calendar, wiki and chat client.

May 15th, 2006 Sajax is an useful ajax framework to simplify ajax based development for languages like PHP, Ruby etc. Not many realize Sajax can be used equally well from plain old html pages (as in .html or .htm).

February 24th, 2006 Google seems to have developed a habit of introducing new services and then withdrawing them due to high demand and reintroducing them selectively later. Google Web Accelerator, Google Analytics and now Google Pages, all follow this overused pattern.

December 7th, 2005 Today I see fewer applets on the web. In many cases they are hidden and are used to perform specialized non-visual tasks.

September 7th, 2005 A nifty idea where you can use a Suggest box (AJAX enabled) to enable users to search any data on your site, including your pages etc. The downside is that it is Internet Explorer only solution.

January 14th, 2007 A very simple way to execute HTML files is by telling the server to parse html files for SSI commands. To do it simply add the following lines to your .htaccess file: AddType text/html .html AddHandler server-parsed .html This has the downside of processing all the html files in that directory and its subdirectories.

May 15th, 2006 I wanted to create ajax based commenting system for some html pages. The design goals were: 1.

June 26th, 2008 We extensively use Tadalist to manage our daily tasks. Previously I wrote about the 5 missing features in tadalist.

November 13th, 2005 Behaviour promotes itself as "the missing link for your AJAX apps". It allows you to use CSS selectors (like id or class) to apply Javascript behaviors to your HTML elements.

January 9th, 2007 Security vendor Imperva has identified an access-control vulnerability in DWR, Java Open Source AJAX development framework (stable release 1.1.3 and 2.0), which it says an attacker can use to compromise a DWR based application which may in turn enable him to say break into back-end databases or servers or launch a denial-of-service-attack. On a positive note Imperva commented that DWR, AJAX Web application development framework, is "emerging as the lingua franca for building new generation Web 2.0 applications" :) Forceful Method Invocation Attacks The key issue is how DWR restricts access to not exposed class methods.

August 14th, 2007 Simple things should be simple. While starting with ExtJS, I saw a screencast on Grid which used a rather dubious method of making an AJAX call using an actual form element.

June 24th, 2006 Yahoo Mail sucked (pardon my French). However their new version (beta as is the norm these days) is getting rave reviews.