AJAX-S - Make slideshows with Ajax
I recently stumbled upon Ajax-S, which is a short for AJAX-Slides. AJAX-S uses an XML format for the actual data which is being presented and XSLT to transform it into it’s final presentational form in order to provide strict separation of content and presentation. Now the best part is, it is available for free download and hence will be helpful for the developer minds.
The idea came to me because I wanted a lightweight slideshow based on HTML, CSS and JavaScript, but I also wanted to separate the data of each page from the actual code that presents it. Therefore, I decided to move the data into an XML file and then use AJAX to retrieve it. The name AJAX-S is short for AJAX-Slides (or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML Slides, if you want to).
After the recent release it supports incremental rendering, non-JavaScript users and also offers a printable version and fixed many other bugs. :)
February 12th, 2006 at 7:41 pm
Thanks for the mentioning!
AJAX-S actually supports HTML or XML as the format for the data, where the HTML formatting one has become my own favorite and the one I used in my two latest presentations.
While we’re at it, I also really recommend taking a look at ASK - AJAX Source Kit.
February 12th, 2006 at 7:54 pm
Thanks, actually I was looking for something like this. But could you please provide me with some example of getting post data etc. something cool like the new Web 2.0 applications. I know its hard with only limited knowledge of javascript and programming but still any help would be appreciated.
February 12th, 2006 at 9:18 pm
Mike,
It depends on what you mean with getting post data. If you’re referring to ASK, there’s a demo with code to download at ASK demo. If that’s not sufficient, or if you meant something else, please send me an e-mail to the address I provided when I wrote this comment.
February 14th, 2006 at 11:18 pm
Looks nice , Let me try it . Thank you Robert.