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In the tutorial entitled "AJAX Design Patterns" Snyke try to design a community portal as it has a wide range of different components that give a good overview of what is archievable with AJAX, also it should provide you with the basic tools that will help you in more complex AJAX applications. I must say that the word "Patterns" in the title is exaggerated and misleading. I'm not sure if Snyke knows what "Patterns" means. Anyway, the tutorial is nicely written with tons of info for the average users.

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I was reading some posts on the ajax-web-technology news group until I come across a post that discribes a problem:

When you get data from the server by AJAX, you don't have link to display it again.
That is my biggest problem with AJAX

AJAX applications create web-pages that are less machine-readable / linkable (try bookmarking a google map). This is probably the biggest criticism of AJAX ... that it breaks the history and bookmarking functionalities of the web browser. Using the hash is probably the best way you will find to beat this for AJAX. There's another great workaround: use a traditional web application.

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Ajax is shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML.

A picture is better than 1000 words. Here is a beautiful picture about the subject.