DevArticles has a new series of articles to build a pagination system with AJAX, by Alejandro Gervasio. In this first tutorial you'll learn how to build the user interface of an AJAX-based system to organize the records neatly into pages. I don't know why people like to use scroll paging components in their applications, I find it very bad for usability and not precise at all. Sometimes I have to use a Toad desktop client for oracle, they have a similar component to scroll data from tables/views, but when you start scrolling you don't know when it will finish!

In this tutorial, I went through the key points for implementing a dynamic scrolling system, which is based on AJAX. As I said before, the main advantage of this mechanism rests on the ease of displaying chunks of database records, without having to include any page links.

Over the next article, I’ll be writing all the JavaScript code required to put the dynamic scrollbar to work, in addition to performing HTTP requests in the background. See you in the next part!