Post details: Google Suggests
Friday, 3 March 2006
Google Suggests
I hadn't been paying much attention to this AJAX thing, until I saw an article about it in Dr Dobbs Journal (Feb 2006).
AJAX is Asynchronous Javascript And XML, essentially a collective name for a group of technologies that together allow web pages to asynchronously interact with a remote server without losing the page context. This leads to the ability to design significantly more interactive interfaces.
The best example I've seen is the one cited in the Dr Dobbs article: Google Suggests. As you type in search keywords, a realtime display appears below showing you suggested matches for what you're typing. All the words retrieved are fetched from Google's server in realtime as you type, without you even noticing. Very cool...
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