Posted by Steve Pugh on 02/22/07 21:22

"Platonistos" <cassius.z@gmail.com> wrote:

>I have been developing with HTML and the XML suite (which I am still,
>still learning: there is a lot to XML!) for some time now. My
>ultimate goal is to be able to make web-based apps using AJAX
>technology, but it is a level of complexity seemingly quite far above
>the more-or-less simple DHTML I am used to.
>
>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?

There's no trick at all. All AJAX does is make a normal HTTP request
to the server and act on the response. The server can respond with a
static resource or a dynamic one, the JavaScript at the browser end
will never know the difference.

However, there are probably very few actual cases where this would
really be useful, but as a learning exercise to familiarise yourself
with the JavaScript end of the AJAX, give it a try.

Steve
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Steve Pugh <steve@pugh.net> <http://steve.pugh.net/>

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