Ajax Design Patterns

3.1. Desirable Attributes of Ajax Applications Ajax is about improving user experience and delivering value to the organizations that own and use web applications. Here, we'll look at the key attributes of an ideal Ajax application. Rea...

3.2. Designing for Ajax By studying existing Ajax applications, as well as any relevant precursors, it's been possible to distill a number of important design principles for Ajax, which are shown in this section. The thinking behi...

3.3. Ajax Patterns Overview The Ajax Patterns show how people have used the design principles effectively in real-world Ajax applications. It might seem funny that we can have so many patterns about Ajax, a term that was coined only a f...

3.4. Anatomy of a Pattern All of the patterns follow the same basic format, though certain fields are left out where appropriate. This section explains the meaning of each section. Evidence How much real-world evidence exists for th...

3.5. Ajax Patterns Demos The Ajax Patterns Demos appear in many patterns as Refactoring Illustrations and also in the Solution section. They're all online at http://ajaxify.com/run/, and it would be worth trying them out. In addition, the ...

3.6. Conclusions This chapter has covered how people are designing for Ajax and introduced the Ajax Patterns. The pattern language (just like Ajax itself) isn't a magic bullet, but a tool intended to improve your mastery of Ajax web development. Y...