Introducing Taconite
By now, you've heard all the hype, you've used Google Maps and you know what Ajax stands for. Heck, you even have the perfect place to use Ajax in your app to finally solve that problem your users have been complaining about since your first release. With baited breathe, you sit down in front of your favorite editor and then it hits you: Ajax is hard.
Let's see, your customers use IE, Firefox, heck a few even use Opera and oh yeah, you have a persistent set of Safari users. You spend an afternoon tearing out your hair trying to figure out what the work around is for your nifty new feature in your new least favorite browser. Dejected you shout," Isn't there a better way? Will I ever see my cat again?" Has anyone fed the cat? We understand and we can help (we have cats). We offer you an alternative, we offer you Taconite.
What is Taconite?
Taconite is a framework that simplifies the creation of Ajax enabled Web applications. It's a very lightweight framework that automates the tedious tasks related to Ajax development, such as the creation and management of the XMLHttpRequest object and the creation of dynamic content. Taconite can be used with all modern Web browsers (Firefox, Safari, IE, Opera, and Konqueror, to name a few) and can be used with any server-side technology including Java EE, .Net, PHP, or any language that lets you return XHTML.
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