Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 006.76 EAN: 9780321472663 ISBN: 0321472667 Label: New Riders Manufacturer: New Riders Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 216 Publication Date: February 19, 2007 Publisher: New Riders Sales Rank: 26827 Studio: New Riders
Step-by-step guide reveals best practices for enhancing Web sites with Ajax
A step-by-step guide to enhancing Web sites with Ajax.
Uses progressive enhancement techniques to ensure graceful degradation (which makes sites usable in all browsers).
Shows readers how to write their own Ajax scripts instead of relying on third-party libraries.
Web site designers love the idea of Ajax--of creating Web pages in which information can be updated without refreshing the entire page. But for those who aren't hard-core programmers, enhancing pages using Ajax can be a challenge. Even more of a challenge is making sure those pages work for all users. In Bulletproof Ajax, author Jeremy Keith demonstrates how developers comfortable with CSS and (X)HTML can build Ajax functionality without frameworks, using the ideas of graceful degradation and progressive enhancement to ensure that the pages work for all users. Throughout this step-by-step guide, his emphasis is on best practices with an approach to building Ajax pages called Hijax, which improves flexibility and avoids worst-case scenarios.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - An interesting book
This was very interesting. I don't know if its completely bulletproof, but it IS about as bullet resistant as you can make it. He definitely makes good points in every chapter about building and designing your ajax application.
I recommend you read this book when you are learning ajax. For the advanced developer, I would hope you are using these techniques. You should at least read this to make sure you are using similar techniques.
For the self-taught, I would say to definitely read ... Read More
Rating: - A very well explained and example-based introduction to AJAX
I bought this book in order to get an easy and speedy up-to-date with the AJAX buzzword. This book does the job.
It is a short book (less than 200 pages). The writing style is very inviting and easy to read. I actually read it cover to cover easily in a very short time period.
The examples that walk you through are easy to understand and give the feel for the material.
Terms are very well explained. Jargon is explained too, which helps positioning yourself within ... Read More
Rating: - Focused, Successful
I bought the book to get a better understanding of the back-end basics of Ajax-piggybacked websites. We hear plenty about the compilation of technologies (asynchronous server requests, JavaScript, the DOM, etc.), but until this point I hadn't come across a book that was enticing enough in terms of its credibility now and down the road.
Bulletproof Ajax fills this void - Jeremy Keith adeptly walks through the technology and its components by defining Ajax and its appropriate objectives for ... Read More
Rating: - A Brief But Thorough Tour of Ajax
A Brief But Thorough Tour of Ajax
Bulletproof Ajax will surprise you at first at its slim 196 pages of content. But as with any book, it's the density of good information and quality of writing that count the most. I find both to be on the mark in both respects. The content is timely, relevant, and very up to date. As we all know, the landscape in web design can make one thing hot and another not in a matter of months. It is a credit to the New Riders/Peachpit group that they could get ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent Intro to Ajax
Bulletproof Ajax is an excellent intro to Ajax. It covers both coding Ajax and also design issues and other considerations, all in a very clear style. The coding examples start simple and are extended step-by-step so they're easy to follow.
So I heartily recommend it to anyone looking for an easy high-level intro to Ajax.
Two concerns:
The title is odd. You'd think "Bulletproof" would have to do with oh say... bulletproofing. But it doesn't. It's a broad high-level ... Read More
- An interesting book
- A Brief But Thorough Tour of Ajax
