Developer, learner of things, functional programming enthusiast, hacker, and all round inquisitor.
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It sounds like something that only javascript pros could do – make a plugin for jQuery. It took me a while before I even looked into it for the same reason. Around a year ago I tried it, and I want to show you just how easy it is.
AJAX is easy. It’s just javascript talking to your server to grab a little bit of content instead of the browser grabbing the whole thing. With this in mind, let’s get to work and build a simple AJAX application that will work with javascript turned off. We’ll do this by assuming that there is no javascript in your user’s browser, then use jQuery to change the DOM to add in the behaviours.