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AJAX is easy, but remember accessibility at Slightlymore – the …

AJAX is easy. It’s just javascript talking to your server to grab a little bit of content instead of the browser grabbing the whole thing. With this in mind, let’s get to work and build a simple AJAX application that will work with javascript turned off. We’ll do this by assuming that there is no javascript in your user’s browser, then use jQuery to change the DOM to add in the behaviours.

So first things first, I just want to lay down a few requirements for this faux-project. I want this to be properly simple, so it would be great if the regular content and AJAX content could come from the same place. I want the pages to work properly for people with no javascript. I want people with javascript to load in the new content using AJAX, but very importantly, I want them to be able to send a link to their friends or bookmark the content they are viewing. This is something which people often look over when building their AJAX applications, so normally if you send a link to someone, they’ll get the ‘front page’ instead of the information which the sender was looking at. So let’s split the project up into four parts:

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