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Anyone know of any good AJAX tutorials and/or books? I went to w3schools.com and their tutorials made no sense to me. It wasn't very clear.

What exactly are you trying to accomplish? AJAX is essentially just a technology and doesn't have any "features" so to speak.

If it is just general usage of AJAX then you would be better off using a pre-built library such as Prototype, or mootols.

If you need any help then let me know as I've got quite a lot of experience in the area.

I say, just learn javascript first... AJAX is just a technology as chris said, it's just a way of using already existing tools to work in a specific way.

If you have already know javascript, then you shouldn't have any problem at all. Just look at 2 examples and you will be able to write your own.

What I would use it for is to make a shoutbox where the user doesn't have to reload the entire page just the messages of the shoutbox.

Honestly google is your friend, and he is there for you..

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=AJAX+shoutbox

Gah I wouldn't be google, what a crappy job, being friends with all people. >.>

I prefer to make my own scripts that way if there are any problems I could fix them faster than if someone else made it. Plus it would be completly tailored to my requirements.

http://www.techtuts.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=918

Heres a small little explanation of AJAX and it gives you some code to work with.