How AJAX can Work for you

If you’ve been in the internet world for sometime, you might have bumped in the word AJAX. No, it’s not the European Soccer team but it’s a new web development tool that has been the craze for millions of web developers. Every training center and computer schools are scrambling to learn this new software so that it can be offered in courses.

Proficiency in this web technique means potential thousands of revenues. If you’re just starting to learn some web programming techniques, better culminate them with AJAX.

AJAX is short for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. That sound’s really complicated and it really is. So that we will understand them let’s take a look at the first word: “asynchronous”. Asynchronous in the computer world is something really revolutionary. Before AJAX, the page or the action will just load because of the communication of your computer to the server. For example, when you click on menu, it will communicate with the server so that it will load the menu to your computer. That could cause some delay since there are so many things to consider.

First, the server should be online; second, you should have a fast internet connection and third the possibility of serving more than one requests at the same time. Imagine you have a good computer and very fast internet connection but you can’t really access the website because it can’t handle the number of requests at the same time.

For the page to load, it will basically need the assistance of the server to make them work. But with “Asynchronous” it doesn’t need any action from the server once it has started. If you have a very fast PC, you don’t need to worry about the internet connection. A simple broadband connection will be just enough to load the pages faster. If we’re just a regular internet surfer who just wanted to watch videos, this sounds very good.

There will be online tools that will load faster so that we can watch the videos faster and better. Among the websites that are using AJAX right now is Google. You may notice that the homepage of Google is really fast to load no matter what your internet connection is. Yahoo is also following this trend. Everyone now wants to have this technique in their websites to lift the burden from the servers and place it to the customers.

Google is on top of this right now as it uses AJAX for their search engines, Google Maps, Google Earth, Gmail and other Google based applications.

As consumers, it could pose some threat especially to those who have poor computers and poor internet connection. But I think it’s not a reality right now. Most computers who can run Windows XP in their computer smoothly will have the ability to have the benefits of Google.

This revolutionary technique is taking the world by storm. Even though you don’t know what exactly is happening in the internet, it surely is making things work smoothly for all of us.

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