The recently announced Google Ajax Libraries API caught our attention because it offers some significant performance improvements if you use a popular Javascript library (e.g. JQuery, prototype, script_aculo_us, MooTools or dojo) on your site. You can now reference these libraries at Google rather than having to host your own copy. The benefits of this approach are:
The libraries […]
We’ve added a page to our HTTP Gallery that provides an introduction to Ajax and some simple working examples. The new page is available here:
http://www.httpwatch.com/httpgallery/ajax/
BTW, you can view the AJAX requests made by this page using the free Basic Edition of HttpWatch.
Web 2.0 is a term often used to describe next generation web sites that have moved beyond the simple page request->process->response cycle and are utilizing services on the web server to return data that can be rendered without making page transitions. The result is often a more responsive user interface that closely mimics a desktop application.
The […]
Some customers contacted us recently to ask why they were seeing http://:/ recorded in HttpWatch. This URL produces an ‘Error 0×57′ in IE 6 and ERROR_INTERNET_INVALID_URL on IE 7.
The sites causing these errors had one thing in common. They were either using the jQuery or YUI javascript libraries. It was not immediately obvious where this URL […]
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