Many programmers, myself included, have long seen JavaScript as a way to change the appearance of a page of HTML dynamically or to perform relatively minor tasks, such as checking the validity of a ...

AJAX and SEO is a tricky topic – after all, an AJAX-based website is more or less the same as a FLASH website: it may look fancy but is non-navigatable. AJAX got its bad SEO reputation for a number of ...

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 its ...

Of all the hats JavaScript can wear, its form-processing features are among the most sought and used. Learn how to use JavaScript for form processing, validation, and more. Forms are an essential part ...

Is it possible? Sure, but why would you? It is going to take you much longer, you won't do as good a job, and you will have wasted a lot of valuable time. The consensus in the Ajax community seems to ...

“You no longer need to do anything special for hash-bang URLs,” Google’s John Mueller said on the September 17 edition of #AskGoogleWebmasters, “we’ll just try to render them directly.” The question. ...