I have read and understood the concept and purpose of AJAX for a while now, but never really got a chance to try it for myself until then.

Last friday I finally rolled up my sleeves and got dirty with AJAX because I needed to create a prototype for the next version of interface that we’re going to build for our client.

The request form of this interface will allow users to include past projects into the new one. So that they know exactly what they’re going to get, we want to give them a “preview” of what’s inside the past projects.

Here’s the result: interface prototype

The “contentLYR” div is the placeholder of the content that gets loaded “on-demand”. On initial load, that div is empty and it gets populated as user interacts with different parts of the interface,
It was much simpler than what I expected, thanks to the really clear tutorial from DHTML Nirvana that I featured on earlier blog: AJAX 101.

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