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Don't you mean javascript?
well, I load a page asynchronously, then inject the content into the current page for a more seamless page transition. So; ajax. You might be confusing me with someone who knows nothing about web development
you can use ajax for navigation, as long as it also works with javascript disabled. For effect on some sites, I use Ajax to make funky transitions between pages - they work without javascript
Yeah - hence me saying don't rely AJAX for your navigation
I wasn't saying don't ever use it!Still though, I wouldn't recommend that a web development 'newbie' use AJAX navigation. There's more important stuff to get to grips with
P.S. Congratulations to me for getting a new job
I start on March 3rd, doing both VB.NET programming and Web Development! Huzzah! Also, he raised his wage offer by 30% after meeting me! Flippin' excellent!I'm looking forward to starting work with other developers after doing it alone for a year and a half
(I had to say it somewhere, didn't really want to start a 'Yay, new job' thread in GD though...)
You might be confusing me with someone who isn't pulling your leg.
It was only a tongue in cheek comment!
Anyway, I would say you use AJAX to communicate content yes, but you use JavaScript to do the fancy transitions, which is what I quoted.
Also it is wrong to assume asynchronous transmission means Ajax.
and you must be confusing me with someone who isn't sarcastic most of the time. take a pill.
what do you think is easier? saying I use AJAX for fancy page transitions, or I load pages using ajax, then use javascript to embed the part of the page I'm after and do the funky transition. There seems to be a bit of a fashion about being pedantic over the definition of ajax on here right now, and it's all well and good when you're actually accurate. I suppose you could argue that it's actually AHAH rather than AJAX because most of the time, I'm loading HTML/XHTML rather than XML but, again, that's being unnecessarily pedantic.
As you can see, I'm also aware that asynchronous != ajax. thanks again.
So basicly we're both just messing around thinking the other is getting wound up by our antics when neither are? lol
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Also wouldn't it be Ajah not Ahah? And personally i would still use the term Ajax for loading XHTML as it is an implementation of XML.
I also like how you care about users wanting to bookmark a certain page on your sites!
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So basicly we're both just messing around thinking the other is getting wound up by our antics when neither are? lol
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Also wouldn't it be Ajah not Ahah? And personally i would still use the term Ajax for loading XHTML as it is an implementation of XML.
I also like how you care about users wanting to bookmark a certain page on your sites!
that happens a lot on here
you'd think it would be ajah, but it's not
With regard to horrible ajax/ahah transitions, I only do them on request - I'd never suggest to do them, but if someone says "I want a slidey transition", I'll explain why it's not a brilliant idea, then when they invariably aren't bothered, I'll do what they ask - they are the ones paying, after all!
By coincidence, not design, though
Not really, HTML and XML were independent standards, just someone realised HTML could be improved if it were implemented using XML standards, giving XHTML
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You're right, but my point is that the point in the method is still to asynchronously retrieve HTML. If that HTML also happens to be XHTML (and thus XML), then that's coincidence rather than design. Unless you deliberately only use it for retrieving XHTML purely because it's XML and standard HTML isn't, or something.
Just being pedantic