Mon, 24 Mar 2008
Ajax
Anthony T. Holdener III, Ajax: the definitive guide, O'Reilly
If your eyes have begun to glaze over at the mention of
Web 2.0 by the money, money crowd then you're in good
company but that's because the money, money crowd
rarely have an interesting idea of their own rather than
Web 2.0 being boring. The idea is basically Web
Applications - full scale programs like word processors
that will run in your browser.
Java was supposed to do this kind of thing but there
was the JVM to be dealt with and also the whole program
needed to be downloaded before anything would happen. It
was all quite slow.
Ajax is what's happening now and the key to the
success of the whole thing is the asynchronous nature of
its communication with the server - in other words, little
segments of a webpage can be updated - the whole page
doesn't have to be reloaded for every new piece of
information.
This book is not only the definitive guide to Ajax, it
is also a pretty good guide to web technology right now,
in terms of browsers, standards, and scripting languages.
The 957 pages with index start off with this
background material and proceeds into issues such as
planning and accessibility, functionality, and the rest,
and then gets on with various examples of how to do
things. All in all, the word 'definitive' is aptly
used in the title.
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