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60 More AJAX- and Javascript Solutions For Professional Coding

When it comes to design of modern web-applications, Ajax is considered as a standard approach. Interactive solutions for lightboxes, form validation, navigation, search, tooltips and tables are developed using Ajax libraries and nifty Ajax scripts. Ajax is useful and powerful. However, when using Ajax, one should keep in mind its drawbacks in terms of usability and accessibility. With an extensive use of Ajax, you can easily confuse your visitors offering too much control and too many features.

Nevertheless, it's important to know what's possible, particularly since you can develop new ideas further, improving the quality of your web applications. Since our last article 80+ AJAX-Solutions For Professional Coding many things have changed — new scripts were introduced, new creative solutions were developed, new robust development kits have been released. They all are supposed to serve a better user experience and provide more comfort for web-developers.

This post presents over 60 new useful Ajax scripts, libraries and solutions which you can use in your future projects. License agreements can change from time to time — please read them carefully before using the script in a commercial web-application.

You might want to consider checking out the following related posts:

• 30 Scripts For Galleries, Slideshows and Lightboxes presents scripts of impressive slideshows, lightboxes and galleries you can use for effective presentations of your images,
• 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS with handy tooltips scripts for intuitive and well-designed visual clues,
• Data Grids with AJAX, DHTML and JavaScript with free solutions for data grids, developed with AJAX, DHTML and/or JavaScript.

Please notice: the overview presented below is not just a yet-another-one-collection of Ajax-scripts. It's a collection of really useful ones, the ones you can use in almost every project you'll be working on.

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