How-To On Ajax Code To Show Movies and Slide Shows

Posted by Zonk on Friday October 26, 2007 @10:34AM from the showing-them-around dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Sites like Flikr and YouTube show just the tip of the full potential for media on the Web. An IBM DeveloperWorks article provides some easy implementations of video and image browsing that you can use in your own project. Learn how to combine media with technologies such as PHP and Ajax to create a compelling experience. All Sample code is made available, and if you're into Mashups the site's Mashup resource space should have everything you need to create a Mashup of your own."

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Re:Putting things in prospective by merreborn · 2007-10-26 11:03 · Score: 4, Informative

Ajax is one single function: XMLHttpRequest, a extension to the browser DOM invented by MS. In other words its a propierty hack on the browser API, nothing more.

"proprietary hack"? Not for long:

http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/