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Is XHTML good enough?

Monday, July 30th, 2007

There are many false benefits of XHTML promoted on the Web. Let’s clear up some of them at a glance:

XHTML does not promote separation of content and presentation any more than HTML does. XHTML has all of the same elements and attributes (including presentational ones) that HTML has, and it doesn’t offer any additional CSS [...]

What is JSON?

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

JSON , which stands for “JavaScript Object Notation”, is a lightweight data-interchange format that is easy for humans to read and write, and for machines to parse and generate. JSON is based on the Object Notation of the JavaScript language. However, it does not require JavaScript to read or write because it is a text [...]

AJAX and JSON Part 2

Monday, June 12th, 2006

Is JSON Fast and Reliable?
JSON produces slightly smaller documents, and JSON is certainly easier to use in JavaScript. XMLHttpRequest parses XML documents for you whereas you have to manually parse JSON, but is parsing JSON slower than parsing XML? I tested the XML parser built into XMLHttpRequest against JSON on these address cards and put [...]

AJAX and JSON Part 1

Sunday, June 11th, 2006

When Microsoft added the ActiveX XMLHTTP object to Internet Explorer’s implementation of JavaScript, the company planted the seed for the revolution in Web applications known as Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, or AJAX. Today, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and other browsers all support what is now known as XMLHttpRequest, making possible sites such as colr.org, backpackit.com, and [...]

AJAX Getting Started

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

This article guides you through the AJAX basics and gives you two simple hands-on examples to get you started.
What’s AJAX?
AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a newly coined term for two powerful browser features that have been around for years, but were overlooked by many web developers until recently when applications such as Gmail, Google [...]

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