Technical Writing

More Responsive Web Application with Ajax

The hottest issue in computer technology concerns web-based application. Along with the rapid growth of the worldwide web, web-based applications have evolved drastically, from text-based static pages to interactive, dynamic applications. The trend now is to develop interactive and intelligent web applications to serve users' needs while giving them pleasurable experience.

Unfortunately, there is one weakness of the web that feels annoying: compared to the desktop ones, web-based applications lacked responsiveness and richness, as they need to reload the displayed page everytime new informations come from the server. The reloading process requires user to wait until the page is refreshed, wether they want to or not.

Introducing Ajax

Now users do not have to wait anymore, thanks to a new approach in building web application called Ajax. Ajax is new technique that uses already-known technology like JavaScript and XML to communicate asynchronously with server. With Ajax, web application can be built in a more responsive way, allowing users to get immediate result of their request, or do anything else while waiting response from the server.

In this essay, we will take a deeper look into Ajax and study the following:

• What Ajax really is
• Technology that Ajax is related to
• The strength and weakness of Ajax technique
• How the emergence of Ajax will trigger a new era of web-based application

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Mohammad Satrio Utomo
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posted by Mohammad Satrio @ 11:48 PM