Ajax stands here for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php is an pretty informative article on how Ajax works.
Ajax is an Rich Internet Application framework that uses Javascript, but not Flash to achive interactivity at the client.
- Zarutian 7. august 2005
escargo 26 Sep 2005 - Is there infrastructure in place to use Tcl in the same way as Javascript? It seems like Tcl (using the Tcl/Tk Tclet Plugin) could accomplish much the same thing. Would it be necessary to use the XMLHttpRequest object?
It would be nice to be able to demonstrate AJAX-like behavior in Tcl.
schlenk 26 Sep 2005 - With the Tcl Plugin you don't need all the XML mumbo jumbo, just open a socket back to the original server or do some http requests via the http package to get the dynamic info you want.
Doing AJAX with Tcl is a matter of ripping of the JavaScript part for the browser side and doing some XML processing on the server side, be it with Aolserver, Tclhttpd, Rivet or one of the other things. Not too hard to do (I have a XUL based JavaScript app as a Mozilla browser sidebar talking to tclhttpd via Mozillas Javascript SOAP-API, very similar stuff)
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