Examples of new technologies (Web 2.0, Ajax)
Have you heard about "Web 2.0"? "Ajax"? Well, in a nutshell, these terms identify new web site building techniques that can make your web site more interactive for visitors. Here are some examples this technology in use:
The Web2scale.com home page:
- Accordian style layout and content management. Compatibility: IE 6 and Firefox, *degrades gracefully on unsupported browsers
- Content expand/hide (Portfolio section). Let users expand content they want to see, and hide what is irrelevant. Compatibility: IE 6 and Firefox, *degrades gracefully on unsupported browsers
- View more content without reloading the page. (Hosting and Info sub menus) Compatibility: IE 5+
- Rollover images with info. Roll your mouse over images or links and more information or larger images appear. Compatibility: IE 5+
Features: Web 2.0, Ajax, XML.
Features: Web 2.0, Ajax, XML, php/mysql (optional database integration). Compatibility: IE 7 and Firefox, *degrades gracefully on unsupported browsers)
Features: Web 2.0, Ajax, XML, php/mysql (optional database integration). Compatibility: IE 6 and Firefox, *degrades gracefully in IE 5, not compatible with IE 5.5 at this time)
* "Graceful Degradation is an important principle in Web design. It means that, when you put in features designed to take advantage of the latest and greatest features of newer browsers, you should do it in a way that older browsers, and browsers letting users disable particular features, can "step down" to a method that still allows access to the basic content of the site, though perhaps not as snazzy in appearance." quoted from http://webtips.dan.info/graceful.html