mrgeorge_22215

I still do not understand the advantage of AJAX because 1) "Loading new parts of a form based on user selection" can be done with plan JavaScript 2) "Grabbing the city/state from a zip code that was entered" JS as above, but with the addition of a hidden frame (which is reloaded, gets info from server, and DOM sends the result back to the presentation page. 3) "automatically suggesting things when typing into a box for a search" Now that one is a little tricky, because if you have to communicate with the server for every letter pressed, well, my connection, even using T1 is too slow for that to ever be a real help. However, I do notice my yahoo search bar doing that, and it is obvious there that the bar comes preloaded with some suggestions, which are actually provided browser side, and not by looking the combo of letters up from a server search engine with each new letter typed. Now I can't prove that. But my connection is too slow, and the suggestions too predictible. So, I am still not seeing the advantage of using AJAX, though I do want to learn more about just what it is. Maybe it does what I have already been doing, but with less code. Or maybe some platforms don't like DOM. ?