While working on the HiPPstr comments, I didn’t understand why other sites required you to go to another page to submit a comment, maybe to prevent over submission, Well I went ahead with it anyway.

I settled on JQuery for my Javascript Framework, it seemed to do a lot out of the box, with lots of plugins and a big community, also the base distribution was a lot smaller than other tools such as MooTools.

I had never done any Ajax Before so this was a little bit of an adventure. If you don’t know ajax is really just a buzz word it stands for Asynchronous Javascript and XML, it’s a very commonly used technology in web 2.0 web applications, which allows actions and http requests to be done without requiring the page to be reloaded. This gives web applications more of a desktop feel.

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