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
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''[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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See also:

   * [JSON]
   * [Using Tcl to write WWW client side applications within the WWW browser]


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