Flash Menu with AJAX driven page content

[nicky77]

Hi, i'm completely new to AJAX - but i'd like to get started with it. I'm starting development work on a small website which will have a flash menu. I'd like to emulate a frame-based layout by keeping the menu fixed and only changing content in a section of the page (enclosed in a <div>), according to the page the user is on. Is this straightforward to integrate using Flash and AJAX? Or would I be better sticking to frames? I would be combining this with PHP/MySQL.

[abduraooft]

Have a look at http://www.htmldog.com/guides/htmlintermediate/badtags/ to see problems of frame. And you are limiting users who have no flash or only have limited bandwidth by using flash based navigation.

[nicky77]

thanks for the reply - i actually don't want to use frames for this site, which is why i'm asking if using AJAX would allow me to emulate that type of layout. i'm aware of the accessibility issues with using a flash menu, however, i'll be looking to provide html alternatives to cope with this.

the flash menu is going to contain an mp3 player, which i'd like to be constant as the user navigates around the site (preventing songs from reloading each time a new page is visited). is it reasonable to use AJAX for this purpose?

[A1ien51]

Yes you can use Ajax...look at the examples on JavaScriptkit.com and see if you can get something from that.

Eric