SAN FRANCISCO—Google announced a new set of APIs to make AJAX development faster and easier.

At its Google I/O developer conference here May 28, Google showed off its Google AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Libraries API, which exists to make AJAX applications that use popular frameworks such as Prototype, Script.aculo.us, jQuery, Dojo and MooTools faster and easier for developers, said Dion Almaer, a Google engineer who worked on the technology.

“When you take a look at the effort that it takes to set up work that should be simple, such as caching shared JavaScript libraries, you quickly realize that the Web could be faster than it currently is,” Almaer said. “The AJAX Libraries API is an attempt to make Web applications faster for developers in simple ways: Developers won't have to worry about getting caching set up correctly, as we will do that for you; if another application uses the same library [much more likely], then there is a much better chance that it will be already caching on the user's machine; and the network and bandwidth of the user's systems will not be taxed.”

He said such things may look small.

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