Does the developer need any special tools to do Ajax development?
Like plain HTML development, you can use a simple text editor (like Notepad) or your favorite Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Ajax is mainly about using existing tools and technologies to achieve a specific user interaction experience; so it stands to reason that your existing tools should be fine. That said, lots of vendors and open source projects are jumping on the bandwagon and starting to provide Ajax-specific modules as add-ins.Without getting into the whole range of tools available, one thing that is helpful for serious Ajax development is a usable JavaScript debugger.A debugger allows you to step through code as it is being executed so you can figure out what is going on when things go wrong. For Firefox there is the Venkman debugger (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/venkman/) while there are a couple of options for Internet Explorer including the Microsoft Script Debugger and the Microsoft Script Editor (the latter ships with recent versions of Microsoft Office).
