Category Archives: Ajax

An Authentication Framework

4 Oct 2005 – 9:16 am

Authentication baked into the framework

All the frameworks I’ve looked at have poor authentication support. Some don’t have an authentication framework at all. Some support HTTP Basic Auth or HTTP Digest Auth. Others support form-based login withought HTTP auth.

Using form-based authentication is preferred for Web applications because you have complete control over the user experience. You [...]

By Jeff Watkins | Comments (2)

Ajaxian Limitation

18 Aug 2005 – 8:47 pm

I was just thinking about adding another Ajax-y feature to the site when it occurred to me: I can either return JavaScript or HTML but not both.

Typically when returning HTML using an XMLHttpRequest object I set the innerHTML property of a div on the page with the result (provided the operation was successful). But I’m [...]

By Jeff Watkins | Also posted in Javascript | Comments (11)

Search via Ajax

5 Aug 2005 – 9:02 am

Thanks to a kind mention by Josh Porter, I’ve seen something of a spike in traffic. And a lot of it has come from links relating to AJAX.

I’m actually working on a cool AJAX demo and the search tool on this site was just a quick hack. In case you’re interested in how it works, [...]

By Jeff Watkins | Also posted in Javascript | Comments (9)