| Ajax: The Definitive Guide |  | Author: Anthony T. Holdener III
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
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Is Ajax a new combination of technologies, or the same old stuff web developers have been using for years? Both, actually. Ajax builds on older technologies and techniques but reaches a tipping point where the results are new. Ajax: The Definitive Guide gives you a leg up on this new stage of web development by teaching you how tried-and-true web standards -- like JavaScript, XML, CSS, DOM, and XHTML -- not only make Ajax possible, but why developing with them is faster, easier and cheaper.
Ajax: The Definitive Guide demonstrates how to build browser-based applications that function like desktop programs, using sophisticated server-aware approaches that give users information when they need it. You'll explore what can be done with Ajax to enhance sites and give them a Web 2.0 feel, and how additional JavaScript enhancements can turn a web browser and web site into a true application.
The book also explains: - Server-side backend components and how to connect them to user interfaces in the browser
- Web application frameworks such as Struts, Django, Ruby on Rails, and Zend
- Loading and manipulating XML documents, and how to replace XML with JSON within JavaScript code
- Manipulating the Document Object Model (DOM)
- Designing Ajax interfaces for usability, functionality, visualization, and accessibility
- Site navigation layout, including issues with Ajax and the browser's back button
- Adding life to tables & lists, navigation boxes and windows
- Animation creation, interactive forms, and data validation
- The new frontiers of Search, Web Services and Mash-Ups
- Applying Ajax to business communications, and creating Internet games without plug-ins
- The advantages of modular coding, ways to optimize Ajax applications, and much more
You will also find references to XML and XSLT, the JavaScript Library, and various Web Service APIs. By offering web developers a much broader set of tools and options, Ajax is giving developers a new way of creating content on the Web, while throwing off the constraints of the past. Ajax: The Definitive Guide describes the contents of this unique toolbox in exhaustive detail, and explains how to get the most out of it.
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 AJAX March 19, 2008
Daniel McKinnon (Tewksbury, MA USA)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
'Ajax: The Definitive Guide' certainly is definitive. With 950+ pages of content, this book doesn't know the word brevity. Spanning 23 chapters and 4 appendixes, this book covers everything you would want to know about AJAX. From its history to how it's grown to where things are today and in the future, this text is very complete. If you are new to AJAX and want to learn how to use it in an extensive way, this is a great resource. My only qualm with this book is that I feel it is just TOO big in size. A 'Learning AJAX' book at around 200-300 pages would be a great companion book to have on the side, then switching over to this bible-size book would be a good transition. Overall this is written well, laid out in detail, and typical O'Reilly quality.
***** RECOMMENDED
A nice addition to a RIA developer's bookshelf March 24, 2008
Russell Ramirez (Minneapolis, MN)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My previous favorite, and most recommended, book on AJAX was the one by Crane et. al. because of it's completeness in covering the subject by taking a big picture view of Web 2.0 rather than just one technology. For developers though, the book by Holdener is probably the one to own.
This book has some excellent information that seems to escape other books on this subject or is found across multiple titles. So even though it is certainly a large volume, I think there is some definite value in having quite a bit of related material in one title. For example, there are insights into JavaScript and use of JSON in programming the DOM (to name a few) that in my opinion made sense to include.
If you are going to do rich, browser-based application work, you definitely want to consider this book.
really defenitive guide August 29, 2008
Mostafa farghaly (Egypt)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i always trust "The defenitive guide" titles from oreilly and this book is no exception , it covers everything in the Ajax world begin with the fundamentals and every related technology , then dive into how using these technologies for real world applications , then covers WEB dervices ,mashups and API , then end up with modular coding best practices during all app developements phases , and the most interesting part is the reference which covers the most popular ajax frameworks , popilar web services api , and what you need to know about Xpath and XSLT .
Very thorough treatment of Ajax October 20, 2008
Pranab Ghosh (San Jose, USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you are looking for a book with thorough treatment of Ajax, you are in the right place. The book does justice to it's title. I appreciate all the code snippets. However, they tend to repititive. When presentig a variation of a code snippet already presented, the author repeats the whole code snippet, instead of just highlighting the differences.
Great Resource and Very Thorough November 29, 2008
E. Peck (Orlando, FL)
This book was a bit intimidating and it took me a while to get through it. The nice thing is that all that reading was worthwhile because I gained a very thorough understanding of Ajax and its associated technologies. I would recommend this title to anyone who wants to know what Ajax is, how it works, etc. and is serious about it.
This book is not for someone looking for a quick and dirty intro. But it wont leave the reader wondering either - this is a deep dig into Ajax.
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