Discovering Flickr and AJAX

Today, I’ve decided to look around for some new web applications using the AJAX development technique.

Basically, AJAX’s aim is to have responsive web applications with maximal processing done on the client using Javascript. When some processing is required on the server (ex. for accessing a database or running a “secret” algorithm), the client Javascript use a XMLHttpRequest object to execute a script on the server which returns a ready-made XML object which can be traversed using DOM.

The main applications I’ve found so far using AJAX are:

Quoting Flickr’s blurb,

“Flickr is the best way to store, sort, search and share your photos online. There is a huge mass of photos in the world, and Flickr provides a way to organize yours, and for you and your friends and family to tell your stories about them”

What is very nice is that Flickr and this WordPress weblog work incredibly well together. In fact, this post has been written in Flickr and, incidentally, the photo has been done by a couple in honeymoon in Mauritius.

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About avinash

I am the Managing-Director of Knowledge Seven Ltd, provider of quality consultancy, support and training for open source software. I am also an amateur photographer and musician. I use a Google Nexus One Android smartphone, an Apple MacBook, Mac OS X, Linux and a lot of open source software. I am married to Christina and we have two wonderful kids, Kyan & Anya. In case you are wondering, Noulakaz means "our home" in my native language, créole.
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One Response to Discovering Flickr and AJAX

  1. Mateo says:

    Hi All Experts,
    I want to use AJAX (Asynchronous JAVA script with XML ). How can i Optimize the site SEO.
    as Java script and flash is not recommended by search engines. Any suggestion or help is welcomed. With Regards.

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