Ajax Tutorial : Ajax Help and Tutorials

Over the next several articles I’ll be covering the “Basic Ajax usage with X”, for example “Basic Ajax usage with jQuery”.

The idea is to take the latest stable version of the chosen JavaScript Framework (for example jQuery) and examine what’s required to achieve the most basic Ajax calls.

I’ll be looking at a few things here, notably the ease of use and the minimum required footprint (in regards to download size).

Note that I will not necessary by using Ajax in the traditional sense of the word (i.e. with XML) as the intention of these articles is to strip everything back to the absolute basics.

I’m not 100% certain about all the frameworks I’ll cover now, but I will most certainly be covering jQuery, MooTools, Prototype, dojo, YUI and ExtJS. If I have the time, I may look at some of the newer ones as well.

This post is a living post (I’ll revisit and link up the articles).

Cheers guys!

Hey folks,

I’m in the process of putting together some ideas for our upcoming JavaScript Coding Contests.

Several years ago, I ran some coding contests on a PHP website (PHP Programming Contests)… they were great fun at the time, and ran for a couple of years.

Since JavaScript seems to be the cool language now, I thought - why not run some contests with JavaScript?

I still need to find some suitable sponsors to offer prizes (let me know if you are interested).

Also, if you have any ideas for future contests, let me know.

I expect to have something ready very soon, so don’t wonder too far away!

Cheers,
Stuart

Scott Guthrie, from Microsoft, has wrote about the new intellisense support for the jQuery library. jQuery support is now found in both Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express (free).

There are a few steps involved in getting this new support - just the usually steps you would expect from Microsoft though, nothing major.

jQuery also announced recently that Nokia would soon have jQuery running in their adopted mobile phone browser (WebKit using the Web Run-Time).

Hopefully I’ll have the first tutorial up here within a few days. We will start at the absolute basics and work up from there. I strongly believe that to understand a new subject, we should strip everything down to the basics and see what each piece of code actually does.

Anyways, We’ll get to Tutorial one basics before the week is out..