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Jeremy Keith — Hijax

• In: Resources
• By:Guy Leech
• September 30, 2006
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A pre­sen­ta­tion given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 29 2006.

• MP3 of presentation
• Presentation slides
• Session descrip­tion
• LiveBlog post
• About Jeremy Keith

Presentation slides

The pre­sen­ta­tion slides for this talk are avail­able here.

Session descrip­tion

Hijax is all about apply­ing pro­gres­sive enhance­ment to Ajax. In the Hijax model, JavaScript isn’t used for advanced inten­sive pro­cess­ing. Instead, the XMLHttpRequest object acts like a dumb waiter, pass­ing infor­ma­tion back­wards and for­wards between the client and the server. By hijack­ing the reg­u­lar func­tion­al­ity and replac­ing it with an enhanced Ajax ver­sion, you can be assured that your web­site will work with or with­out Ajax.

About Jeremy Keith

Jeremy Keith is a web developer with the web consultancy firm Clearleft in Brighton, England where he enjoys building accessible, elegant websites using the troika of web standards: XHTML, CSS and the DOM. His online home is adactio.com.

Jeremy is a mem­ber of the Web Standards Project where he serves as joint leader of the DOM Scripting Task Force. He wrote the book DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model.

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3 responses to “Jeremy Keith — Hijax”:

1. • By:webkroll.com » Blog Archive » Progressive enhancement
   • October 21st, 2006

   […] I strongly sug­gest you head over to the WebDirections web­site to have a look at Jeremy’s pre­sen­ta­tion on the topic with a spe­cial focus on AJAX. Apart from the slides avail­able at the site I would also rec­om­mend to have a quick peek at the live blog notes that Andrew posted during/​after Jeremy’s presentation. […]

2. • By:Jeremy Keith’s Bulletproof Ajax » zombiecoder kay: best practices web development
   • January 16th, 2007

   […] When I was at Web Directions South last year, I had the priv­i­lege to intro­duce Jeremy Keith’s ses­sion on Hijax. The pre­sen­ta­tion was one of the high­lights of the con­fer­ence for me, in spite of — or in case because of — the love/​hate strug­gle I’ve had with JavaScript over the years. […]

3. • By:Jeremy Keiths at Web Directions South: Hijax » Professional Web Software Development
   • February 2nd, 2007

   […] This is a really good pre­sen­ta­tion on pro­gres­sive enhance­ment using both JavaScript and AJAX. […]

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