Ajax Girl

Twelve years after the debut of search engines, we have Google representing the current best-of-breed index of web pages. It is faster, smarter, and it has raised the bar for web usability several times over. And yet, we are still paging through search results ten or twenty records at a time. Unfortunately, this style of navigation has been adopted by every site that returns records from a database, regardless of the amount of data being served.

We propose an alternative interface to result data on the web: the “Endless Pageless”. Using Ajax we can dynamically fetch more results and append them to the bottom of the page, as the user approaches the end of the content they have already read. This pattern removes the need for pagination, feeding your customer as much data as they care to read in a subtle, non-intrusive way.

Read More: http://unspace.ca/discover/pageless/

A fun little site to help un-table your websites.

Of course, this doesn’t apply to sites that display tabular data. (CSS nazis can tend to go overboard at times, and forget tables are not 100% bad when used appropriately.)

Just found this list of 126 Ajax Tutorials over the weekend — here’s a sampling:

• Ajax Workshop 3: Shopping Cart using Script.aculo.us at AjaxLessons
• Building an AJAX-Based Chat: The Barebones Structure at DevArticles
• Dynamically loaded articles at DHTMLGoodies
• Slide Show with Controls at Zapatec
• Ajax for Java developers: Build dynamic Java applications at IBM
• Create Your Own Ajax Effects animated text; at ThinkVitamin
• Make all your tables sortable at Kryogenix
• Ajax Design Patterns at Snyke
• Ajax Poller at DHTMLGoodies

Really huge, excellent list. Check it out…