AJAX Toolkits of course OpenSource Developing rich user experiences with RIA technologies such as AJAX makes Web-based applications response quickly and intuitive like a typical desktop application. Instead reloading a page after the old click-wait-refresh model the AJAX application stays on a page continuously while the AJAX engine handles data exchange with the server.

Building the case, AJAX Web-applications provide enormous advantages compared to conventional Web-applications, they avoid slow response times and scrolling after the page has reloded thus improve end-user productivity, lower bandwidth consumption and costs by partial page updates and reduce the time to wait for the next page.

Applied to eComerce systems AJAX even increases revenues making new applications easy and intuitive reducing the amount of friction for end-users.

My favorite OpenSource AJAX toolkits include DOJO, PROTOTYPE-based RICO and SCRIPT.ACULO.US, which supports Gucci and Apple Aperture. Another interesting framework represents the upcoming OpenLaszlo project Legals, which is projected to be available by the end of the year 2006.

Ajax toolkits usually provide cross-platform and cross-browser independence, are compatible to existing web development technologies allowing a smooth transition to next generation Web-Apps with a strong ROI.

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