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Posted by yourserving, 03-07-2007, 06:29 PM
I don't know if this is the right part of the forum, but hopefully someone can help. Someone has asked me if we could support Ajax. I am just wondering if I need to have something installed serverside to run Ajax or is this supported by something else?
Posted by That Guy, 03-07-2007, 07:19 PM
Ajax is just a technique, not a programming language. It requires javascript usually, so that means the client's visitor's web browsers need to have javascript enabled. Unless they want to use Ruby on Rail's Ajax or some ASP.net stuff, I don't think you'd need anything installed. I might be wrong, but that's what I've observed so far.
Posted by maxymizer, 03-07-2007, 07:42 PM
AJAX is completely client-side, it depends on the users' browser and not software you have installed @ your server.
Posted by ITHost-KoreyR, 03-08-2007, 12:41 PM
We have a client with an ajax chat installed into the footer of his forums www.kdoubt.net We've done nothing to enable it, its up to them to insert the code into the forums footer. During peak hours, it is one of the higher using processes however.
Posted by mikey1090, 03-08-2007, 01:18 PM
you should still watch out for AJAX, it can open long connections with the server, and a constant refreshing AJAX style msn chatroom could cause the server stress
Posted by ergo, 03-17-2007, 06:03 AM
it all depends on the use and developer , ajax by itself does not make more stress ( actually it SHOULD lessen the load just by fetching samlpes of data, not the whole pages), but if someone does something stupid like fetch some db data every 5 secs it may be a problem, its a matter of programmer and his experience not the technology itself. Last edited by ergo; 03-17-2007 at 06:11 AM.