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- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+47why? it cleans my toilet wayy better than Comet®
- Tanglefuzz, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2790% of the stuff listed on that page isn't even made using ajax......
/sigh. - mattmcm, on 10/11/2007, -0/+21@trappleton
Obviously, you've never used Google Mail before. - MikeonTV, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17You could apply any of these and still couldn't come up with an original idea.
- heyitsgarrett, on 10/11/2007, -4/+15Although there are some great examples here, I worry that AJAX will become the animated gifs of this decade - cool for the sake of cool, and overuse can just become tiring.
When used right, it's an incredible tool. - themoose, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Digg hardly uses any ajax... Only the actual digg button, and the inline comment editing.
Comment posting isn't even ajax! - pollardito, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8do i read this correctly or did they just give us nearly a hundred Ajax links so that we don't have to go through a hundred Ajax links looking for stuff
- agimat, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10dude, you get shocked so easily.
- djdole, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Indeed. A very powerful tool for rich UI developement.
But I don't think you have to worry about it becoming the animated gifs of this decade, because not just anyone can fully implement ajax.
(A few of these examples don't even fully implement Ajax but are merely clever examples of interaction between the DOM layer and JavaScript.)
Gifs only require a line of text in a static HTML file, the gif file itself and a webserver account to host the two. Ajax actually requires thought as to how the communication between the service and the client code works, and would require knowledge of how to setup the server to handle the client code's requests.
You have to have a service running on your server to be able to return the data from the asynchronous requests, and those script kiddies who made every hack and hurl with their overuse of Gifs on the 'homepages' (not to mention the of so annoying MARQUEE and BLINK tags) wouldn't have the expertise.
Additionally, if any technology were to lose popularity from overuse due to it's ease of implementation, flash animation would go LONG before Ajax.
I suspect that 5 years from now, less people will be hyping ajax it since it'll have more widespread use, and is no longer the new technology.
(people hyped up Java, OO & Aspect oriented languages when they were the new guys too.)
It'll most likely just be another fundamental tool of web development, and will offered to IT majors or web-dev majors just as relational DB classes are offered and how linked lists and data-structures are taught to cs majors today. - ineedaspo, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8i guess its beside the point to say smashing magazine makes amazing lists
- Respec7, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8good list, though if you don't want to get down to all the basic coding with ajax use something like mootools, jQuery or tinyajax. No point in reinventing the wheel each time you want to do a ajax call.
- cakeeating, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4No prob. I definitely have a bit of loathing for Smashing Magazine, but couldn't deny the usefulness of this list - whether or not much of it is technically Ajax.
- coldskool, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Is anyone else annoyed by the way smashing magazine displays their articles?? Its always difficult to tell where one 'entry' begins and one ends. It looks all run together. Then they throw a previous article smack dab in the middle with that huge font... ouch my ***** eyes are bleeding now. thanks.
- Mutaz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I like the list...great stuff...save time when you need cool controls. thanks for the post cakeeating
- d4rkn1ght, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Flash is what replaced the gif. I have seen sites that use flash just to display spinning logos. Something that can easily be done with a gif, and take less resources.
- Philodox, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4While fairly cool, so much of that is just pure Javascript. AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript And XML) implies that there is some kind of request made by the browser in the background and then the response is used to display new information to the web user.
I don't know if calling your library/widget plain Javascript is uncool now or if it's just that AJAX is so popular that people will plaster the label on anything. - merreborn, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3@d4rkn1ght
An SVG would work even better. - Dotnetsky, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Use AJAX, the foaming cleanser (baba bubbah bum bum bum)
Wash the dirt right down the drain (Baba bubba bubba bum)! - justinbmeyer, on 06/11/2008, -0/+1What about JavaScriptMVC! http://javascriptmvc.com
- yenta4shop, on 09/07/2008, -0/+0http://www.yenta4shop.co.uk/
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http://astore.amazon.com/steam.cleaner.mop-20 - FuzzyCat, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Well, except for one thing... I'm sorry but it started bugging me, I went to bed, got up and it's still bugging me and now you're going to get it :)
Read the license agreements, there are a few of these (in the article) that prohibit their use in commercial situations, there's even one where the author says it's released under the GPL and then attaches some conditions making it not GPL at all. So before you start coding the next world beating site read the license agreements for any of these tools, snipets etc - you don't want to find out 6 weeks into your coding that a js library you're relying on wont let you use it in your target situation...
Don't get me wrong I'm not complaining that they have licensed their work, it's just an inappropriate license is useless for everyone.
m'kay.... - yogastore, on 06/27/2008, -0/+0http://astore.amazon.com/calphalon.commercial-20
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http://astore.amazon.com/chefs.choice.knife-20 - 123zoozle, on 12/17/2007, -0/+0I like the list very much...great stuff.
http://www.dassnagar.com/Software/social-networkin ... - crossers, on 07/19/2008, -0/+0nice. I like list. you save here your time and found what you want!
http://www.shpe-sac.org
http://www.ocflex.com/
http://www.trgovinca.org
http://www.chasr.org/ - t0nee, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0how about livesearch:
http://wiki.flux-cms.org/display/BLOG/LiveSearch - playerZero, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1buried as needing a proofreader.
- DEADBEEF64, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0This item was made for Digg. Just made my day a lot brighter!
- masskurec, on 03/03/2009, -0/+0cool scripts
http://xptweak.net - jonashwing, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2#30 and #31 both link to the same example.
Also, both display the same picture, one is just cropped a little lower. - mistahroth, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1I've been meaning to learn a bit of AJAX to incorporate into my new sites, this should help me get off the ground, good stuff
- diggwebq, on 03/17/2009, -0/+0good list, though if you don't want to get down to all the basic coding with ajax use something like mootools, jQuery or tinyajax. No point in reinventing the wheel each time you want to do a ajax call.
http://www.zestrx.com/product/viagra-soft-tabs.htm ... - mendigg, on 11/09/2007, -0/+0Although there are some great examples here, I worry that AJAX will become the animated gifs of this decade - cool for the sake of cool, and overuse can just become tiring. My site about an auto on Russian: http://www.avtosport.com.ua
- jebaird, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3very true. but when i started playing with ajax I wrote my own library just so i could figure it out. That way i could appreciate what mootools, jQuery, tinyajax do.
- dbase, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1......./
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+3Trendy phone, high price, no thanks.
- dbase, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Excellent resources. I sprinkle ajax on my lunch everyday.
- kelly, on 10/11/2007, -5/+3Can we say that the iphone with 3rd party web based ajax apps has a brighter future than many on this site have given it credit thus far... or does that stance fall too far out of line for the Apple detractors here?
- darksoulfinder, on 10/11/2007, -3/+0very useful this is.
- bitchslapper, on 10/11/2007, -3/+0I think the title is too big for the page.
- goyney, on 10/11/2007, -9/+5Already have used two of these on some internal websites. Great list!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -12/+8I love how this guy says ***** ajax and hes on digg which has a lot of AJAX.
Anyway. Smashing Magazine is nothing but spam... this is basically the same list you can find on miniajax.com that was submitted a month or two ago. - fkr3, on 10/11/2007, -10/+5AJAX is specifically and only sending/recieving requests with JavaScript. I have a natural distrust of the code from people who consider it to be so much more than what it actually is.
- urbannomad23, on 10/11/2007, -6/+0this is awesome...
- kevin2005, on 10/11/2007, -6/+0Smashing magazine is not spam. Miniajax is nothing compared to smashing. They have lots of content.
- HillerMylife, on 07/24/2008, -11/+3@matt
I have, but I don't think it's revolutionary or anything... besides, I get my Gmail via Mail.app. - rip747, on 10/11/2007, -10/+2buried
all functionality that these scripts provide are now part of a wide range of javascript frameworks such as jQuery, Mootools and what not. I'm shocked that the author didn't focus on these in his article. -
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