musings of wrath

I’m a geek, and I like new toys. The Form Assembly is a suite of toys designed to simplify web form creation and to make the actual submission of form data as seamless as possible.

It does this by using AJAX, or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML.

AJAX lets a programmer or web developer turn a web page (and just a SINGLE web page) into a fully-functional application. A good example of AJAX and how it works is GMail. If you’re on a modern and supported browser, you’ll notice that interactivity throughout most of GMail doesn’t load a new page, but instead does things like create a reply box with just a click. That’s AJAX at work.

AJAX can also be used as a data-entry tool. That is, you can have the “next” button on a form just display another piece of the form on the same page, while the backend behind the site is happily saving the information from the first form to a database.