PageFlakes.com has some of the most amazing feature that you cannot find in most websites: a widget container. Any HTML code that you have could be easily loaded through the container provided by Pageflakes.com. Although there are already tons of widgets in their website, you can easily create one of your own. For example, the embed code in YouTube.com could easily be applied in the codes that you have. Codes that could be integrated in MySpace.com such as simple casual games could also be applied in the widget container. As a developer, you can also offer a widget container in your website so that users could upload an application through an embedded code from a different website.
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The back button and behavior is one of the biggest challenges to any developer. In simple HTML pages, the back button preserves the last state of the website and even the things you have written there. Unfortunately, this reality is not possible in Ajax. Developers have to toil hard and rough so that the last state of the website is preserved. In a regular setting, the whole webpage reloads whenever the back button is pressed. Some may say back button is not necessary anymore
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It is already an established problem in Ajax that developers would still need to develop almost two types of applications if they wanted to build an online application good for Mozilla and Internet Explorer. Because of this struggle, developers would have to build almost two different applications that will require a lot more than the usual time for application development. The end result however, is well worth it. A highly efficient Ajax based application does not only provide eye catching features but could easily provide a highly effective application with processing speed that almost rivals any simple web-based application. Transmitting only the data needed in the application for Ajax has lessened the bandwidth requirements for an Ajax based application.
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Developing an Ajax based application with minimal JavaScript coding is possible with the use of VS 2005, ASP.NET and a simple but powerful library called Anthem.NET. This open source library might not be popular but it has been given a pretty good ranking as it provides any developer the ability to build an Ajax based website without using too much Ajax. As you may have already noticed, it uses a lot of frameworks and software development tools to compensate with the minimal use of JavaScript. To use Anthem.NET you need to fire it up first in ASP.NET. Basically, you will just have to use the libraries DLL as a reference point to make it work. It is really simple at first glance but apparently Antem.NET’s DLL is not precompiled first. Make sure that you compile the project carefully as the DLL could get extracted in different places.
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A very smart practice in coding is to test if the function will have the ability to perform in a particular browser. This is especially true in Ajax-based websites as developers have to face constant browser incompatibilities. Objects could easily be a problem when everything is in place for a particular browser but it will just falter since development of the program has not considered other browsers.
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