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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7AJAX is my new master. I get it. Stop posting AJAX stories unless they are about how it ran into a burning building and saved several children from the fire while creating a cure for cancer and undoing the changes made to CPlus pop.
- ahawks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The best thing about all these rediculous AJAX tutorials is they don't cover half of AJAX. AJAX is Asynchronous Javascript *AND XML*. The javascript is the simple part. Use XmlHttpRequest or whatever. I got it. We all have it.
Now teach me how to parse XML with javascript. 99% of these "AJAX" tutorials have the response server spit out comma separated values or something. Teach the XML half!
Ps: if anyone has any good XML/Javascript references... please mail one to me :) - infradead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2'So why don't all you bitchy "that was so last post ago" ubergeeks get to putting into place this old tired technology?'
Nice :) This is the first AJAX article I actually *read* and *worked* through. It works. It's fun to use. I can use it with Perl. I can think of real-world applications for it. - SethX9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If AJAX is so pervasive then why does just about every site refresh the page to get new information? Why is Flash seemingly the only solution to making interesting interactive web-based applications?
The truth is while the disparate parts have been around for years the IDEA of using asynchronous calls to the server via XMLHttpRequest, for whatever reason, never really caught on widely as the core of a framework.
Just because something's a fad doesn't mean it's useless. As fads go (if indeed AJAX is a fad) this is a damn good one! So why don't all you bitchy "that was so last post ago" ubergeeks get to putting into place this old tired technology? - starmonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Stop using digg.com as your own personal del.icio.us account.
http://del.icio.us/search/?all=ajax
ffs. - elev8, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3YAAA = Yet Another Ajax Article
- jhowe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Thanks, this is one of the more complete articles that I've seen.
By the way, people will probably keep digging Ajax articles whether or not people post negative comments about them, although if you want to keep wasting your 'breath', be my guest. - kcyrus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There is nothing hard about AJAX and nothing to master.
Any decent programmer gets it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@morrog
Be careful. You might be giving people ideas about that WikiAjax! Haha! - lostboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1AJAX MUST DIE! please think of the children, the mutated AJAX children
- boicraig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1AHHH! AJAX!!!!!
no digg. ever. - Sanchez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I for one, welcome AJAX as out new overlord and hope that more stories are posted.
- rhino_rampant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I get it, some diggers like being smart ass holes! Get over it! It never hurts to have a myriad of different references.
- BryanTheCrow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I am so goddamn sick of the term "AJAX". I've been using this technology for years, and all of a sudden someone throws a new name on it and everyone thinks it's this new hott *****. Then some jerkoff has the audacity to title this ***** intro article (with some rather bloated & non-extensible example code) as "Mastering" AJAX.
It's posts like this that make it such a pain in the ass for me to find qualified web developers when I'm hiring. Everyone thinks they're an expert, and everyone else knows even less, so they think so too!
If you're a web developer and you dugg this, please, please, please, save your interview-screeners some time! Do NOT tout yourself as anything other than entry-level.
In short, no Digg. - indiefan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2can you really be an expert in a single web development technique? If so, then I'm an expert in System.out.print
- forgiste, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Eventually, there will have been so many Ajax stories that everyone in the world will know it, and they won't have any more need to post ajax stuff.
- knubile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Its like any other web technology. It'll be over used like mad for a year or so, and then it'll settle down into its proper use. Maybe just email clients, maps, and digg style tiny bits of info.
There has to be a time to experiment with it everywhere before people figure out where its best to use it. - HeavyDownpour, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I invented what is now known as "Ajax" back in 1986, while doing research for NASA on advanced web-based techniques for cleaning caked-on particles of moon dust from "suction" toilets. At the time, we referred to it as "Comet," but it was exactly the same as today's "Ajax." Even back then I realized that Comet was going to revolutionize the web. All I can say is, it feels great to finally be vindicated.
- glassjoe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1AJAX (the term at least) is going to be the "Vanilla Ice" of web development? Rising higher and higher in popularity at ever increasing ludicrous speed, only to fall back down just as fast.
- wilf_brim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Didn't we hust have a digg just like this.
- SilverRocket, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0AJAX mega-diggs or not, this is one of the better articles posted to Digg on the subject.
- beenhero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0really cool
- jfoust, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Haha! Nice comments. Thanks for picking me up while I watch the Falcons blow their playoff chances :( Almost forgot... STOP WITH THE AJAX! I get it already!
- molecool, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I for one welcome our new AJAX slinging overlords :-) Come on - someone had to say it! Frankly, this is really lame - there are much better AJAX tutorial out there, just dig around (no pun intended).
- RyanOC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I love ajax, keep posting more! I cant get enough! I need more ajax!
- fridge2k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0AJAXIMIFIED!
- tarun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I posted this because I like IBM DeveloperWorks and I really enjoy the high quality articles they produce. So when I saw they had an AJAX article, I couldn't resist.
- nicepants, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Do I even NEED to say it?
- ssaha, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Someone kill me already ;o)
- spybreak, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1use Rails and you won't have to "master" AJAX
- mikeroySoft, on 10/19/2009, -1/+0can i snort it, or just freebase?
if only freebase, will snort be available with AJAX 2.0?? - spiderland, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Another ***** Ajax article?
No digg. This ***** has got to stop. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1***** reported
- Pizpump, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"YAAA = Yet Another Ajax Article"
Lol, nice. *thumbsup* - waiwai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I wish we had some decent high level AJAX articles, this one was just another tutorial doing nothing new.
There really are some interesting things out there that are generally applicable. Effects like the fading highlight and whatnot are nice because they call attention to something that changed without a page load. Similarly showing an animated icon near the AJAX using link to show something is indeed happening despite the page not reloading, etc.. - themachina, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Stop digging all this AJAX/Ruby crap. It's getting old fast.
- jiminoc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0its hardly "MASTERING AJAX" as the article states its just an introduction to ajax, just like the other 100 introductions to AJAX that don't offer much benefit other than having something searchable for google ad revenue
- themonkielives, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Please STOP with all the AJAX crap! It was cool technology like 7 years ago, MOVE ON!
- a1programmer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I think anyone can become an AJAX master if they read all the links that digg points to!!!
- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Please, this is killing me.
We get it already.
*ducks* - themajor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I guess I've heard enough about ajax for a while
The Major - schultzeworks, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Its like Deja vu all over again. Somebody love the ajax big time.
- Lingur, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1WE GET IT.
- psylence, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Jesus God.
- psylence, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Ugh.
- MindTrigger, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0
People are still using AJAX? That was so October 2005. - etx313, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0AJAX CURES CANCER! It's Amazing!!
- jiminoc, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0ajax? auto digg babyyyyyyyyyyy
- SubZ3r0, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Who ***** cares ajax is javascript and just like javascript its gay unless your a script kiddie so stop posting this crap rather hear bout a real web languages like PHP, Perl or maybe even ASP.NET and or HTML for people who want a static webpage. either way AJAX is gay so stop diggin it already!
+lame - furiouszebra, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0AJAX IS SO WEB 1.0.
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