The Power of jQuery with Ajax. As the web evolves, new technologies are emerging and uniting in remarkable ways. The combination of Ajax and jQuery, in particular, is one of the most powerful unions to date. The purpose of this article is to give a brief and generalized overview of both Ajax and jQuery, and also discuss how jQuery has made Ajax development easier than ever before.
What is Ajax? Since its conception in 2005[1], Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) has changed the web as we know it today. It’s helped websites evolve into Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) by allowing web pages to make direct requests to web servers without reloading the page. Ajax in Practice Let’s say that you have a login form for your web application.
A more savvy approach to this problem would be to check if the login and password is correct using Ajax. The web server (usually through a server-side script/language such as PHP) takes the two parameters and then queries your user database to see if there is a match. What is jQuery? Welcome to @Anywhere | dev.twitter.com. JsPlumb demo. Lisa Pram _ Professional photographer, Barcelona, Spain _ Editorials, portraits, advertising. Chrome Experiments - Home.