Ajax Seminar
It's not that I've attended another training or seminar, but this time I was the resource person :-). Since last night I've stay late at night (thanks to the bowling tournament - I've enjoyed though... I've always knocked all the targets except that 1 stubborn piece of craft that keeps on making my score... the usual, the average 9... so unfortunate I've only got 2 strikes)... Oh and 'bout my seminar most of the stuffs I've got here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX...
Basically, I've divided my lectures into 2 dotnet ajax and non dotnet techs... Why because in dotnet we have two used existing ajax libraries else make your own while on the other hand we just have to implement from XMLHttpRequest object.
1.) Non-dotnet ajax
1.a) Basically I've introduced 2 ajax libs here 1 is anthem which I think was last updated 2007, and the latest ajaxcontroltoolkit that supports dotnet framework > 3.
Anthem can be downloaded here:http://anthemdotnet.com/ plus there are available documentations and a lot of simple examples that are easy to digest.
1.b)As for ajaxcontroltoolkit (http://ajaxcontroltoolkit.com/) it's much difficult to implement...
Comparing the two anthem contains it's own controls which are using ajax technology for example it has it's own button object, the problem here is that we only have a limited control at our disposal plus anthem and non anthem controls cannot be used together. For example non anthem button cannot be integrated with a anthem datagrid. While on the other hand ajaxcontroltoolkit produced container for non ajax object like updatepanel where we can place our checkbox, button, label, etc object and add appenders we want to use. For example using ToggleButtonAppender, where clicking on one of the checkbox produces certain action... See the example yourself...
Well I've enjoyed playing with ajax using php since I have more freedom, doing things on my own, having my own implementation. All you have to do is have a grasp of the technologies in use such as DOM, javascript, xml, and the XMLHttpRequest object - basically that's ajax. For this I'm using another open source library prototype.js which is available here: http://www.prototypejs.org/.
Basically, I've divided my lectures into 2 dotnet ajax and non dotnet techs... Why because in dotnet we have two used existing ajax libraries else make your own while on the other hand we just have to implement from XMLHttpRequest object.
1.) Non-dotnet ajax
1.a) Basically I've introduced 2 ajax libs here 1 is anthem which I think was last updated 2007, and the latest ajaxcontroltoolkit that supports dotnet framework > 3.
Anthem can be downloaded here:http://anthemdotnet.com/ plus there are available documentations and a lot of simple examples that are easy to digest.
1.b)As for ajaxcontroltoolkit (http://ajaxcontroltoolkit.com/) it's much difficult to implement...
Comparing the two anthem contains it's own controls which are using ajax technology for example it has it's own button object, the problem here is that we only have a limited control at our disposal plus anthem and non anthem controls cannot be used together. For example non anthem button cannot be integrated with a anthem datagrid. While on the other hand ajaxcontroltoolkit produced container for non ajax object like updatepanel where we can place our checkbox, button, label, etc object and add appenders we want to use. For example using ToggleButtonAppender, where clicking on one of the checkbox produces certain action... See the example yourself...
Well I've enjoyed playing with ajax using php since I have more freedom, doing things on my own, having my own implementation. All you have to do is have a grasp of the technologies in use such as DOM, javascript, xml, and the XMLHttpRequest object - basically that's ajax. For this I'm using another open source library prototype.js which is available here: http://www.prototypejs.org/.
