“Ajax overhaul, Part 4: Retrofit existing sites with jQuery and Ajax forms” now live at IBM developerWorks

Brian Dillard, Monday, August 4, 2008 @ 1:16 pm

Last week, IBM developerWorks published the fourth installment in my jQuery/UxD tutorial series. Ajax overhaul, Part 4: Retrofit existing sites with jQuery and Ajax forms shows how to turn a multi-page checkout process into a single-screen interface using two jQuery plugins: jQuery Form and jQuery UI Tabs. As with previous installments, I tried to show not only how to use open-source JavaScript libraries, but why. Ajax integrates into existing webapps best when it's used to improve their user experience design rather than just thrown in for its own sake. In the example application I constructed for this series, Ajax was used to simplify the shopping process rather than complicate it needlessly. As always, I focused on progressive enhancement so that the overhauled interface didn't leave any users behind. This is the final installment of this series, at least for now. I hope to publish on additional topics at developerWorks soon.

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