Ajaxian » Hijax: Graceful Degration - The Diigo Meta page

• 09 Apr 08
  

  Darren Wallace

  Pattern for graceful degredation in AJAX applications.

  graceful degredation hijax ajax accessibility

  • • First, build an old-fashioned website that uses hyperlinks and forms to pass information to the server. The server returns whole new pages with each request.
     
    • Now, use JavaScript to intercept those links and form submissions and pass the information via XMLHttpRequest instead. You can then select which parts of the page need to be updated instead of updating the whole page.

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