And, indeed, this asynchronous behavior is what makes JavaScript—and Ajax, for that matter—so exciting for Web developers. No longer are we stuck with the modern equivalent of old-style 3270 terminals ...

Ajax.org is today introducing Cloud9 IDE, a fresh cloud-based development platform for JavaScript incorporating HTML5, and supporting Python, Ruby and PHP. The environment aims to enables developers ...

Asynchronous JavaScript with XML, or AJAX, is the crown jewel in the current Web evolution that has been dubbed Web 2.0. Thanks to the technologies that make up the AJAX acronym, the interactivity of ...

AJAX and SEO is a tricky topic – after all, an AJAX-based website is more or less the same as a FLASH website: it may look fancy but is non-navigatable. AJAX got its bad SEO reputation for a number of ...

Brendan Eich, creator of the JavaScript scripting language and chief technology officer at Mozilla, has joined the advisory board of Amsterdam, The Netherlands-based Ajax.org. We recently wrote about ...

Many programmers, myself included, have long seen JavaScript as a way to change the appearance of a page of HTML dynamically or to perform relatively minor tasks, such as checking the validity of a ...

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“You no longer need to do anything special for hash-bang URLs,” Google’s John Mueller said on the September 17 edition of #AskGoogleWebmasters, “we’ll just try to render them directly.” The question. ...

Ubiquitous jQuery has been outmoded by JavaScript and browser advances. These jQuery-like alternatives pick up where jQuery left off Simplifying tasks such as HTML document traversal, animation, and ...