CHAPTER 11Enhancing Blogs with Ajax

One thing that Ajax technology affords us is the ability to provide additional levels of interaction for users, within static web pages. This means that you can begin to change how a static web page actually operates while still providing a seamless user experience.

One area that could stand to use some improvement is that of web logs or blogs). From a pure data perspective, a web log is nothing more than a listing of entries consisting of the text entry, a title, and a link to the full entry. However, the means of browsing old entries and checking for new entries is rather crippled.

In this chapter you'll see two different ways that a typical web log can be improved by using some JavaScript code that uses ...

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