I recently had need to submit a web form with file fields via AJAX. The application uses jQuery and was already submitting forms just fine without file fields using the .serialize() method to pass data to a jQuery.ajax() call. That didn’t seem to handle the file fields, though. Searching the internet, I found a solution using the browser built in FormData object.
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Javascript hash handler and router
At work I did my first fully ajax loaded, from scratch site, Block Bros. I used jQuery with my own library of “wrapper” classes for loading the ajax and animations between “pages”. I had to write a lot of new stuff though and modify some of my library classes to get everything working smoothly.
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