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Advantages of Using AJAX

AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is now considered as one of the most important tool for developing a good, professional and enticing website. No one can ignore the advantages of using Ajax. There are many other web tools and applications for developing a good website. But, most of them are slow and tedious. And Ajax is the best and very important for making an enticing website.

Ajax is a program for web, using which you can get rid of hourglass. Using this programming you can merge together the content, data and design into a seamless whole. In fact, Ajax combines:

• Page interaction through the DOM
• Presentation based on CSS standards and XHTML
• Asynchronous type of data retrieval with the XMLHttpRequest
• Interchange of data with XSLT and XML
• All is tied in a JavaScript

Here are few advantages of using Ajax over the classical web based applications.

1. Asynchronous Calls – You can make asynchronous calls to the web server. Thus the client browser can avoid waiting for the data to arrive before acting once more.
2. Limited processing on server – There is no need to send or process all forms of elements to the server. You can send only necessary data. And by sending only limited data, processing on the server becomes less.
3. Minimal transfer of data – By not sending all forms of data to the server and not performing full postback, there is minimum utilization of network and thus operations occur quicker. Thus this can improve network performance greatly.
4. Context – With the full postback, there is a chance of losing the context where the users were. Users at the bottom of the page can be redirected to the top of the page by hitting the submit button. Full postback is not there in Ajax thus by clicking the submit button the user can also able to maintain its location. Thus the users state will also be maintained and they don’t have to scroll down to the location where they were before clicking submit button also.
5. Responsiveness – Since Ajax applications are asynchronous on client, they are apparent to be very much responsive.

Thus, for all these advantages Ajax is considered the best web application program.

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