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- kevisazombie, on 10/17/2008, -2/+59Good to see this list has actual AJAX in it and not just DHTML tricks tagged with the buzzword.
- cyclopssmiley, on 10/17/2008, -0/+44I miss when this stuff was always on the first page
- Morthy, on 10/17/2008, -2/+39Dugg for tech articles on Digg
- arial, on 10/17/2008, -0/+22Wow an AJAX list on Digg? Did I go back in time? yay!
- FUR10N, on 10/17/2008, -2/+231 page ftw
- magic6435, on 10/17/2008, -3/+23Silverlight? Ewwww get it off get it off
- joshhan, on 10/17/2008, -0/+13SELECT TOP 1 UserName
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Returns (1) row 'yojiffyskippy' - tj111, on 10/17/2008, -2/+15My thoughts exactly. People don't understand exactly what Ajax is, or they want to be "in on the hype", so the throw the term Ajax around carelessly. If nothing is talking to a server, it's not Ajax, it's just javascript. Get that through your head bloggers/tutorial writers!
Javascript != Ajax
Javascript != JScript (Thanks MS! >_>)
Java != Javascript. - farkninja, on 10/17/2008, -0/+5To quote ProUSADigger
"What is this filthy tech article doing on Obama's campaign website?"
http://digg.com/linux_unix/5_Cool_Apps_to_Make_the ...
/sarcasm - magic6435, on 10/17/2008, -1/+5Not my fault silverlight is *****. If you want something interactive to that point you should go with flash/flex but 90% people would be better off with html and js.
- AkshayGenius, on 10/17/2008, -0/+4Dugg for tech news, on front page, woohoo!!
- mahadiga, on 10/17/2008, -0/+3http://ajaxpatterns.org/Examples
- larsonc, on 10/17/2008, -2/+4Geez, what is the obsession with jQuery? I'm not saying I don't like it, but there are alternatives...
- Smuikas, on 10/17/2008, -2/+4bugs?
someone wasn't unit testing their javascript (www.jsunit.net)
JavaScript errors?
Someone wasn't unit testing their javascript, or didn't understand how JavaScript actually worked (www.crockford.com), or wasn't using the right tools for the job (google:firebug).
Useless troubleshooting?
Since when is using effective tools to create a web application that can be used without extensive proprietary plugins useless? - AbsurdParadox, on 10/18/2008, -0/+2Allow me to provide you some examples of how we can get tech articles on the Digg front page again:
"Sarah Palin is TOO STUPID for these AJAX Tutorials"
"Barack Obama is going to clean up in the election, as if he were using AJAX" (see what I did there?) - snowblind113, on 10/17/2008, -0/+2ruddy, you are THE man. i have been looking for an intro to web design FOREVER that is easy to understand, yet comprehensive in its content. THANK YOU
- MeltingIce, on 10/18/2008, -0/+2Aw they didn't include my ajax tutorial that I wrote. It could use more work too though I guess.
http://www.meltingice.net/ajaxtut/ - CrushThemTorg, on 10/17/2008, -1/+3A list of AJAX tutorials without the obligatory three-line "LET'S FADE A PARAGRAPH IN JQUERY, LOLZ!" entries? Are you sure?
- spidur1, on 10/17/2008, -0/+2The Ajax UpdatePanel only works over a fast connection though.
- Smuikas, on 10/17/2008, -0/+1If you really want to delve into what JavaScript can do for you, and how to use it effectively without adding 400kb of bloat to your pages with libraries that include all sorts of things you don't actually need, go read through www.crockford.com.
And then read through it again.
Of course, unless you actually know how to program it will be less than useful. If you really want to be a decent web developer, take some computer science classes. (AJAX is not design, it is programming. If you want design, go through the w3c specifications for (x)html and css and start playing around with them. You don't need some tutorial to dumb it down for you. It's really not that complicated.) - erossmu, on 10/17/2008, -1/+2It's quite simple, for people that don't know wtf the term means. Firstly, it's an acronym. Secondly, the acronym is "Asynchronous Javascript and XML." AND being the operative word. Without both, it isn't AJAX. It's pretty simple to distinguish whether something is AJAX or not; people are just ignorant. They hear the term recited in a certain context and then proceed to mimic said context and usually use the term incorrectly.
- findhostcoupons, on 03/22/2009, -0/+1I have a dream to study AJAX in the future! Hope these tutorials will help my creazy dream come true very soon! Thumb up!
- itcoll, on 10/17/2008, -0/+1thanks a lot for sharing
- stage88, on 10/18/2008, -0/+1They could have picked a better .NET example...
http://asp.net/ajax/documentation/live/tutorials/C ... - imcostalong, on 10/17/2008, -1/+2Seeing how there are a lot of articles about tutorials on digg today, I thought I would post my two of my favorite tut websites.
Pixel2life.com and 3dbuzz.com They have great collections of tutorials, some video as well, for most programs and formats.
Thought It might help some people who need a wider array of information.
Though, if you are into self-education you probably already know what these websites are all about. - webkami, on 10/17/2008, -1/+21 page great list from SmashingMag, digg!
- inactive, on 10/17/2008, -0/+1This is good, because you'd be surprised at how many web devs don't know about AJAX.
Personally, I think it's the next best thing since sliced Jesus.
Makes web UI more tolerable, decreases bandwidth from having to constantly reload/refresh pages in comparison to .net's View State... and good eye candy (the kind that's built into most frameworks) always makes people pee a little.
But in the end, it's really easy stuff that makes it look like you worked for eons creating it, but in reality is like, "Nope, spent about an hour scripting out the data collections I needed, sent an async request to my web service, got a response back... 4 lines of code."
People will think you're a god. - Smuikas, on 10/17/2008, -0/+1@spidur1:
A lot of complicated ASP.net applications only work over a fast connection. That's what happens when your store hundreds of kb of data in hidden form fields. - gerrylazlo, on 10/17/2008, -0/+1Smuikas: Most of the code is interpreted server side and never reaches the browser. There are hidden keys but that's nowhere near hundreds of KB. Although I get the vague impression that you don't know what you're talking about.
Spider:As for only working over a fast connection, please tell me what you are basing that on? - jgeek, on 11/03/2008, -0/+1For JSP/Coldfusion developers: http://www.servletsuite.com/jsp4.htm#ajax
- aparatoc, on 10/17/2008, -0/+1Enjoy the long-lasting suds with the relaxing and refreshing scent of Lavender and Lemon together.
- smoothmann, on 10/18/2008, -0/+1How in the ***** do you make those boxes. Like the one on that page at the top where you can X out of????
Anyone have a TUT for that? - CrushThemTorg, on 10/17/2008, -0/+1I can see I'm going to spend my afternoon poring over the writing of the man who developed JSON. Anyone have any comment about 'Javascript: The Good Parts'?
- scoot2006, on 10/17/2008, -1/+1I'm glad to see MooTools getting some recognition. My preference of libraries.
- garconcn, on 10/17/2008, -2/+2very nice list. thank you
- foxontherock, on 10/17/2008, -1/+1Absolutely, thank you MS, and believe in the Ajax UpdatePanel! We add a lot of ajax features in our application without changing a single line of code, just by adding some updatepanel to some key actions of our pages to make them work in full ajax enabled environment. Wonderful. And the Codeplex Opensource Ajax Toolkit, also provided by microsoft, helps add some other useful visual enhancement to our application almost without coding!
- TeeLaw, on 03/13/2009, -0/+0Photoshop. Illustrator inspiration
- phqu88, on 10/17/2008, -1/+1Yeah i just started messing with the controls that come with the ajax kit...interested in starting with the custom controls. Its sad that after developing one of my bigger web apps i didnt use ajax to begin with. ***** tiiiight.
- gerrylazlo, on 10/17/2008, -2/+2I hand coded an Ajax application for data tracking (for a client) in ASP and JS. For the next application I implemented Ajax using VS2008. I rarely, if ever, say this, but, "Thank you, Microsoft!"
- MemoryDump, on 10/17/2008, -5/+5wow.. excellent list.. very well laid out and easy to understand.. I love that they have live working examples too linked.
- steveyoorock, on 10/18/2008, -1/+0honestly, when i saw this thread, i expected to see things you can use AJAX for. ajax as in the soap. x]
- musters, on 10/17/2008, -4/+1You know Digg is no longer a tech site when... "Silverlight? Ewwww get it off get it off"
- phqu88, on 10/17/2008, -5/+2Anyone else notice they are using the same s from salesforce.com too? just thought that was funny.
- K4emic, on 10/17/2008, -3/+1Thank _you_ for making me find an introductionary 'how to' for JS.
- K4emic, on 10/17/2008, -4/+1Nah, more like this.
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