-- Posted by ax1um at 3:28 pm on Sep. 27, 2005 I've been hearing all the fuss about AJAX lately on Digg, but havn't really looked into it that much. Anyone know anything about AJAX? -- Posted by hearts that bleed at 4:15 pm on Sep. 27, 2005 It's also a cleaning agent. -- Posted by trikola at 10:34 pm on Nov. 5, 2005 its HTML XML and some other web languages working together. Benefit is you dont have to refresh the page for updates from the server. One example is Gmail -- Posted by jamesvarnham at 2:58 pm on May 19, 2006 AJAX is cool, it gives webpages a whole new feeling.... its like Web 2.0 -- Posted by pleaseremove at 3:05 pm on May 19, 2006 Related to this, google has released a toolbox framework http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/ One page thats good for showing off what it can do is here: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/documentation/examples/kitchensink/demo.html Also, the tutorial here is a nice way to start: http://www.w3schools.com/ajax/default.asp Examples of where it can be used, at one stage there was a script on LW that refreshed your new PM's. It went back to the server every 1min and only had to load a tiny bit of HTML without refreshing the whole page. You do have to remember though that this is still a pull technology, not push so it can create high loads on servers when checking, hence why LW no longer uses this.