| Genealogy meets AJAX |
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| Written by Michael Francois | |
| Tuesday, 21 November 2006 | |
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The system handling genealogy data has been updated using The Next Generation of Genealogy SitebuildingŠ, which utilizes AJAX to allow for ancestor and decedent trees to be more interactive. This also results in the database now being in MySQL, and being accessed via PHP. In addition to the interactive charts, you can now build timelines of individuals, as well as compute how two people are related. You can also click on the little green magnifying glass you see next to locations to see them in Google Maps, which will open in a new window or tab. Click on the Genealogy button on either menu to get started. The new software has the ability to store histories, documents, photos, cemetery and other data. Overtime, this data will become more complete. As always, please contact us if you know something we don't. What is AJAX? AJAX stands for Asynchronous Javascript And XML. AJAX is a web development technique used for creating interactive web applications. AJAX is the logical next step in the services-oriented architecture revolution. With AJAX, user interfaces from within the browser can use web services as their data source to store and retrieve information. Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is not a technology in itself, but is a term that describes a "new" approach to using a number of existing technologies together, including: HTML or XHTML, Cascading Style Sheets, JavaScript, The Document Object Model, XML, XSLT, and the XMLHttpRequest object. When these technologies are combined in the AJAX model, web applications are able to make quick, incremental updates to the user interface without reloading the entire browser page. This makes the application faster and more responsive to user actions. Quoted from http://ajax.org/ |
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