I’ve been looking into Ajax and Dhtml quite a bit over the last couple of weeks as we’ve started to do more work with Start.com and Live.com gadgets. Tim’s finished a gadget that I’ll be able to tell you more about later in the week hopefully.
Anyway, been considering how all this Ajax stuff can be used for SharePoint. Will SharePoint v3 have Ajax heavily integrated? Only time will tell. They’ve been working on it for the past couple of years which may mean that a lot of the planning was done before the Ajax revolution? Maybe someone on the Beta program can annonymously leave a comment! :-)
Either way, RSS and XML feeds are the data plumbing of XMLHttpRequest, and with v3 having RSS feeds everywhere, developing Ajax functionality shouldn’t be too hard for webpart developers. But what about for now? Well you can get RSS feeds for lists in SharePoint using the RSS Extensions for SharePoint project on GotDotNet. Westin Kriebel has been nice enough to blog about his Ajax SharePoint webpart to collect user feedback.
What other uses can you think of Ajax in SharePoint?