AJAX

Stricktly spoken Ajax (sometimes called Web 2.0 "technology") is not related to Askemos -- except that everyone and their mother will eventually use it for their own applications.

http://www.openajax.org/index.php

As a programming environment Askemos is well suited to drive Ajax applications. However it's a good idea not to depend on it, at least not for essential features. Client side scripting is often turned off for it's security risks in sensitive environments.

To mitigate the effect - and thereby exploiting some unique features of p2p style "servers" - we use redirect tricks to give those users, who refuses script execution, a somewhat ajax-alike feeling. (The trick goes to the expense of network traffic, but since a p2p-server is usually found at the local machine, the additional traffic is no problem.)

TODO: use http://hop.inria.fr/ , it's very simillar porting from bigloo should be simple.

About http://softwareas.com/ajax-patterns:http://ajaxpatterns.org/

The idea of Ajax is to use a hidden frame like http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php and http://search.cpan.org/~eric/OpenThought-0.71/lib/OpenThought.pm to update the client side (recently also called the ajax way as described here too).

Thus coding Ajax is an application level task altogether. BALL however will eventually support JSON encoding and probably include some optimisation for the emerging frameworks.

See also css to apply js and exercised here too. Newsforge about mozex extensions , which support external editors for textareas

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-ajax4/index.html?ca=dgr-lnxw01GWT4Ajax