New Ajax Page in the HTTP Gallery

June 06th, 2008 - 9:00AM

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.

The Performance Benefits of Ajax

April 04th, 2008 - 11:56AM

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 technology to make HTTP calls from JavaScript embedded in an HTML page was first introduced for general use by Microsoft in IE5 in order to support Outlook Web Access way back in 1999. However, the XmlHttpRequest object was not widely used until it was adopted by … Continue reading →