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AJAX IN THE CLASSROOM

2008; Linguagem: Inglês

10.48009/1_iis_2008_152-159

2331-3838

Thom Luce,

Power Systems and Technologies

The recent explosion of Web 2.0 applications has changed user's expectations regarding the web experience.Users now expect web pages to behave like desktop applications, reacting to mouse movements and individual key strokes and updating only small portions of the page at a time.While a number of technologies exist to create these rich internet applications one the most popular and widely used is AJAX.AJAX isn't a new technology but uses a number of existing technologies including JavaScript, XML and the XMLHttpRequest object to implement asynchronous browser-server communication and partial page updates.This paper explores some of the benefits of AJAX along with methods for implementing it and why it should be included in our curriculum.