Adding AJAX to your static web pages makes a lot of business sense. If I were to make a list of benefits that AJAX delivers, it would be too long to finish today’s post. In a nutshell, it improves user experience by adding responsiveness to your web pages, and by minimizing steps (and reducing time) at UI level to complete a task. Not to mention, AJAX saves a lot of HTTP requests to save bandwidth.

For those of you who are not well versed with scripting, Alajax provides a simple solution to add AJAX to normal HTML forms. Alajax is a small jQuery plugin that adds all the necessary code to your HTML forms to make them dynamic and responsive.

It sends the form by Ajax to the URL given in “action” property of the form. Also, the plugin uses the “method” property to use POST or GET method.

Adding a shopping cart to your website or blog was never as easy as it is now with Easy Basket – not just because the name says it is easy but because it is easy to integrate and manage with almost any website. With built-in support for Google Checkout and Paypal, EasyBucket supports both PHP and ASP language platform.

EasyBucket is based on HTML, jQuery, AJAX, PHP core, XML, XSL and CSS, Easy Basket has become a true two part application, and allows a lot of integration and customization options.

Easy Basket shopping cart is compatible with iPhone and is fully ‘skinable’.

As the caption goes, ‘Edit Anywhere‘,  NicEdit is a WYSIWYG is a free text editor that can be used in various scenarios to provide on-the-fly content editing in a rich text format. It is lightweight, cross platform, feature rich online JavaScript text editor to allow easy editing of web site content on the fly in the browser.

NicEdit WYSIWYG text editor integrates into any site in seconds to make any element/div editable or convert standard textareas to rich text editing. Its goal is to be as simple and fast as possible for users of your application.

jCart is an open source Ajax shopping cart built using jQuery & PHP and comes with PayPal checkout integration.

This open source Ajax shopping cart handles visitor input without reloading the page and is fully functional even without JavaScript.

Ajax Shopping Cart Features

• PayPal checkout integration
• Easy integration with existing storefront
• Degrades gracefully without JavaScript
• Lightweight, readable, commented code
• No special server requirements or other dependencies

Ajax Upload is a free file uploading script with progress bar, drag & drop support. It uses XHR for uploading multiple files with progress bar in FF3.6+, Safari4+, Chrome and falls back to hidden iframe based upload in other browsers, providing good user experience everywhere.

AJAX Chat is a fully customizable open source web chat software implemented in JavaScript, PHP and MySQL.

AJAX Chat supports voice chat that is powered by Flash & Ruby (sound support is optional).

Features

• Multi-lingual chat software
• Realtime monitoring and logs viewer
• Custom emoticons support
• Multiple channels & private messaging

Ajax Chat is developed with security in mind and it is strong against code injections, SQL injections, cross-site scripting (XSS), session stealing and other attacks.

Who cares to install applications when we have got a browsers. Now a remote computer can be accessed from any OS platform through any HTML5 compliant browser (Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, etc).

ThinVNC is pure web based HTML5 Remote Desktop solution. ThinVNC takes advantage of the latest web technologies like AJAX, JSON and HTML5 canvas to deliver a high-performance Remote Desktop access over the web, using HTTP and SSL protocols.

ThinVNC also provides a Presentation Mode, which allows to securely invite people and show them the whole desktop or selected applications, always taking advantage of a pure-web access with no download or installation of any kind on the client side.

Mollify is web file manager for publishing and managing files hosted in a PHP enabled web server, with AJAX powered clean and fully customizable user interface.

Mollify comes with a intuitive and clean user interface. Its a multilingual web file manager with support for 12 languages.

Features

• File level user access control
• Multiple file uploading with progress display
• Support for public links for file downloads
• Event logging & Server plugin system for extending features
• Fully customizable UI via CSS files, no styles are “hard-coded”

Raxan is a powerful Open Source AJAX Application Framework that uses a set of web related technologies to deliver an integrated solution for building rich web 2.0 applications.

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SAJA is an Open Source Secure AJAX Framework for PHP4 & PHP5, with optional secured data transfer. It is designed for the speedy creation of simple, secure, and maintainable AJAX applications, without the need to write any JavaScript.

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