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

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."

Comments

Great, more Ajax

[The_Mystic_For_Real]

I suppose the 12 year olds creating Geocities pages have grown up and want to incorporate all the extravagant flash into their more grown up web pages.
We really need to get back to simple, clean cut pages that display the information and resources that your site is offering. The trend towards flashier
page is rapidly decreasing the utility of the web while increasing overhead and security issues. Simple can be beautiful, and it is almost always useful.

Re:Great, more Ajax

[Bonewalker]

It is my understanding that Ajax is really about bringing new/fresh data based on things like user-input without having to reload the page, thus making the web experience much faster and more user-friendly. So, it would seem to me that it doesn't necessarily mean the page(s) or site(s) can't be simple and useful regardless of whether or not they incorporate Ajax. Am I wrong on this analysis?

Re:Putting things in prospective

[merreborn]

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/