Ajaxian conducted a recent survery on Ajax toolkits/frameworks. The "winner" was Prototype ( a new one to me ) which is a Ruby-based framework. Wow! I did not realise there were so many AJAX frameworks out there! I use Sajax ( it is simple ) and have been experimenting with Backbase ( too complex for me ). PHP turns out to be the most popular server-side web development platform. Good news for me. I have been using PHP more often than Perl now. I have been using the Sajax toolkit for a few months now and I really like it. True to it's name it is simple to setup and use. I tooled around with Backbase but...the learning curve and complexity required more time than I have patience for. I also very quickly tired the Dojo AJAX toolkit/framework. I think that one has potential ( easy to use and lots of features ) and I may come back to it later.
Tag: JavaScript
perl.com: Using Ajax from Perl
If you're even remotely connected to web development, you can't have failed to have heard of Ajax at some point in the last year. It probably sounded like the latest buzzword and was one of those things you stuck on the 'must read up on later' pile. While it's definitely a buzzword, it's also quite a useful one.
Found this very useful article on perl.com. I've recently added some asynchronous JavaScript calls to my Perl code. The feedback from users has been positive.
