You should learn the basics before letting some higher-level framework do all the magic for you. There are some good articles about AJAX on the Mozilla Develop

You should learn the basics before letting some higher-level framework do all the magic for you. There are some good articles about AJAX on the Mozilla Developer Center: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/AJAX http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/AJAX You can begin with http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/AJAX:Getting_Started http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/AJAX:Getting_Started You can also find some good pointers to AJAX toolkits and examples there.