Ever wanted to add some AJAX effects to your site to create a great and interactive looking site. Here’s a list of 48 of the best Mootools scripts around there (e.g. image galleries, lightbox clones, tabbed contents, forms, menus, tables, date pickers…).
Where possible, creating Web applications — including Ajax-based applications — in a RESTful way avoids a large class of bugs. However, a pitfall of REST (REpresentational State Transfer) is sending duplicate data across similar XMLHttpRequests. This tip shows how the moderate use of session cookies can maintain just enough server-side state to significantly reduce client-server traffic, while still allowing fallback to cookie-free operation.