Posted by Harlan Messinger on 02/22/07 19:24

Platonistos wrote:
>
> My question is this: every instruction in AJAX I have seen seems to
> imply that server-side scripting (i.e. PHP) is required for AJAX
> applications to work. My question is, is it at all possible to do
> AJAX-style operations (i.e. using JavaScript embedded in an XSLT
> stylesheet) without having to learn server-scripting - or, if I want
> AJAX, do I need to know server-scripting first?
>
> If it *is* possible to do AJAX-style things without server-scripting,
> what is the "trick" to it?

The whole point of Ajax is to facilitate creation of pages that interact
with the server. If there isn't any code on the server to interact with,
what are you expecting to use Ajax for?

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