Re: AJAX and PHP

Per Jessen wrote: > Alain Roger wrote: > > >> So in this case what is the plus for companies like MS, Google (with >> Gmail), flicker and so on to use AJAX ? >> > > For them (and others), it's about the user experience, and ajax is good > at enhancing the user experience. > > >> it is on internet, so i guess they have a purpose to do that. >> mine is to have a responsive and intuitive interface application >> whatever it is on internet or intranet. >> > > Now you are changing the rules - they are very different on the > internet. My advice - don't use ajax in an attempt to reduce network > traffic. Use it to enhance the user experience. Caching is much > better at reducing network atraffic anyway. > > > /Per Jessen, Zürich > > If it's the size of the page itself that is large, caching does not help as the HTML is pulled everytime if something is different. As for AJAX, check out http://xajaxproject.org It makes AJAX really easy to code. Thank you, Micah Gersten onShore Networks Internal Developer http://www.onshore.com