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• Wikipeida article on AJAX.
• Google
• A Live Chat Application

These are ideas for AJAX.What ideas can be used for wordpress or its plugins? As perhaps mentioned before

• Spell check
• More accurate post read counter or habits tracking
• Auto saving while creating post
• Read More under posts

AJAX plugins certainly do not appear in dreams. Current examples are

• Live Calendar
• Suggest / Live Search
• AJAX Shoutbox (WordSpew)
• Count My Clicks
• Wordpress Touched

Now what is my idea? The answer is customising the presentation. A while before, desktopmod webby made a nice impression in my mind as each module/section of their webpage are like windows which u can minimise or close. Then I sure there are many implmentations done already like in brainjar or how popup menus are done in DHTML. I would like my blog to have lots of functions yet simple, without clusting the space (like now), if not it would look like some news site, portal or CMS. Example, shoutbox would take up someheight, so do Top posts, unread comments, calendar, whose online so on… I could use javascript to contract and expand them, but the catch is the browser would need to download all the content first. With ajax enabled, only when a section is click to be expanded, content will be pulled from the server, process any php if needed and displaying almost immediately on the page.Implementation wise, state of the expanded items can be stored in cookies. Content of each portion can be stored as javascript variables (lifetime of a request cycle), stored in cache (cookies), or made to refresh periodly. We now should have seen enough ideas of AJAX, more should be implemented. This shouldnt be too diffcult, I shall try to do this as my first plugin when I’m free sometime this week!