One year ago, Thomas Lackner didn’t ask much of JavaScript. When he sketched out the architecture to a Web application, he knew he could count on the browser language for “set-a-cookie hacks” and for ...

Client-side JavaScript is great for making innovative and user-friendly web sites. Next to AJAX, a web technology well established to trigger the load of certain page content on demand, so-called ...

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A correction was made to this story. Read below for details. Slicker development techniques like Ajax, a way of building interactive browser-based applications, are fueling a surge in consumer Web ...