I’m not hardcore in terms of programming, but what I see now around the net is the rise of this new approach in programming called AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), a newly-coined term and technique which incorporates XHTML, Cascading Style Sheets, JavaScript, DOM, XML, XSLT, and the XMLHttpRequest object. With this at hand, we can make requests to the server without reloading the page as well as parse and work with XML documents. A good read of AJAX Model resides here.
Current Web Applications Using AJAX
- AJAX live chat room
- Google Personal Homepage web portal (click on “Personalize your Google homepage”).
- Google Maps Interactive maps (by Google).
- Google Suggest Live retrieval of type-ahead suggestions for search terms (by Google).
- Kiko Online calendar
- Map of Switzerland (map.search.ch): The first interactive map (by Search.ch).
- Meebo Messenger in a browser supports yahoo, msn, aim, icq.
- Netvibes Web2.0 personal portal
- Protopage Highly-configurable personal start page.
- Yahoo! Instant Search Yahoo! search with instant results