If you've used Google Maps, Gmail or Microsoft's Outlook Web Access, you're familiar with the power of AJAX, which gives Web applications the responsiveness users associate with desktop applications.

One year ago, Thomas Lackner didn’t ask much of JavaScript. When he sketched out the architecture to a Web application, he knew he could count on the browser language for “set-a-cookie hacks ...

Companies deploy Web-based enterprise applications because they’re easy to support and deliver to a broad range of devices. In the 1990s, browsers became the platform for critical applications ...

Web interaction is getting a facelift through the Ajax Web development approach, which boosts client-side interaction in Internet applications. Coined by Jesse James Garrett, founder of consulting ...

Using Ajax and a Web-delivery model is allowing his start-up, with about 15 employees, to "bootstrap" the company, he said.

That makes it the "easiest and quickest attention-getting visual" for a Web site, Smith concluded. Ajax, a term coined around 2005, is shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML.

Yahoo! is rolling out beta versions of AJAX products, like Mail, Instant Search, Travel and Shopping. What's more, Yahoo! has been buying up a variety of AJAX startups, such as the hugely popular ...

Twenty years ago, AJAX enabled web applications to achieve an unprecedented level of interactivity. The concept came from James Garrett. He founded the agency Adaptive Path in 2001, which advises ...

Ajax Amsterdam's Davy Klaassen suffered a head injury when he was hit by an object thrown from the stands, causing a lengthy delay, before his team edged bitter rivals Feyenoord in Rotterdam on ...

Create Rich Web Apps with AJAX. AJAX has caught on tremendously as a method for building dynamic and interactive Web sites. Learn what AJAX is, what its benefits are, and how you can implement the ...