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4. History of AJAX On April 30, 1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free for anyone to use and the Web took off, jumping from 130 Web sites in 1993 , to over 100,000 in 1996 , to 11.5 billion sites in 2005 . The main protocol used on the Web is the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). It's a patented open Internet request/response protocol intended to publish and receive HTML pages. The Web was never meant to be used for applications, only mass storage or linked content. Ever since the Web came out, developers have been struggling to get around the request/response sequence. Browser asynchronous hacks have been possible since 1996 , when Internet Explorer introduced the IFRAME tag HOME NEXT
5. Microsoft's Remoting Scripting or MSRS was introduced in 1998. This device was more elaborate than previous hack attempts and used JavaScript to communicate with a hidden Java applet that was in charge of the asynchronous communication. In 2002, Microsoft replaced Remoting Scripting with the XMLHttpRequest object, which was quickly copied by all the major browsers. Most modern browsers now implement Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), HTTP/1.1, HTML 4.01, Document Object Model (DOM), and JavaScript. This means that there is less need for conditional statements to apply different scripts depending on the browser. Historically, Web sites improved in user experience by implementing Dynamic HTML or DHTML, a method of combining HTML, JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and Document Object Model (DOM) to interact with user events. PREV NEXT
6. AJAX is only a communication layer and does not include any visual elements. However, because AJAX, like DHTML, is based on JavaScript, it can achieve amazing results. The term AJAX was coined on February 18, 2005, by Jesse James Garret (Father of AJAX)in a short essay published a few days after Google released its Maps application. PREV NEXT
7. When Google launched its AJAX services, it gave AJAX awareness, trust, and credibility. IBM and a group of industry leaders announced on February 2006, an open source initiative to promote AJAX adoption. This initiative, known as OpenAjax , is supported by over 60 companies and organizations including BEA Systems, Borland, the Dojo Foundation, the Eclipse Foundation, Google, IBM, Laszlo Systems, Mozilla, Nexaweb, Novell, Openwave Systems, Oracle, Red Hat, Yahoo, Zend, and Zimbra . PREV HOME
16. AJAX Example First AJAX application : To understand how AJAX works, we will create a small AJAX application. First we are going to create a standard HTML form with two input fields: Name and Time. The "Name" field will be filled out by the user, and the "Time" field will be filled out with AJAX. The HTML file will be named "testAjax.htm", and it looks like this : <html> <body> <form name="myForm"> Name: <input type="text" name="username" /> Time: <input type="text" name="time" /> </form> </body> </html> HOME NEXT