Product DescriptionBuild interactive Web applications with Ajax
Create live searches and online spreadsheets
Discover programming mistakes to avoid!
Create blazing-fast Web applications with powerful Ajax
If you think that mastering Ajax is too difficult, guess again. You can create Web applications that look and feel like desktop apps in less time than you think with the comprehensive Ajax instruction in this in-depth book. You'll find easy-to-follow tutorials, hundreds of tips and tricks, and so much practical information that even skilled developers will reach for this book first. Let this Bible be your guide as you jump into the hottest Web programming technology in years.
* Master the fundamentals--JavaScript(r), XML, dynamic HTML, and CSS *
Tie Ajax into Google with the Google(r) API *
Handle simultaneous XMLHttpRequest objects in Ajax *
Use Ajax frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, AjaxTags, and others *
Understand the Document Object Model (DOM) *
Create floating menus and effects with CSS *
Encrypt data over plain HTTP using JavaScript *
Adapt real-world examples to your own programs
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Find all the code used throughout the book at www.wiley.com/go/ajaxbible
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - I expected more
This book convers very well a lot of subjects on Ajax, and a lot it doesn't.
There are two chapters focused on PHP. These are on the Parte IV, named Advanced Ajax. But in this two chapters, if you try to find Ajax, you won't get Anything!!!
This book is not aimed for advanced or experts of Ajax, it's just for the beginner and maybe intermediate.
If your're searching a book for some advanced Ajax techniques. GET ANOTHER BOOK!!
Rating: - A Bible in Size Only
This book is way bigger than it needs to be. The code examples take up enormous amounts of space. When stepping through an example, the entire example code is (usually) repeated with the new line under discussion added. Even the simplest example takes up pages of text. Every new example gets the cross-browser code for obtaining an XMLhttprequest object. Do we really need that repeated for each example?
The examples are mostly very simple, usually replacing one line of text with another. ... Read More
Rating: - Solid beginning to end coverage of Ajax...
Finding a book on Ajax isn't too hard any more. Finding one that covers beginning to advanced Ajax (and does it well) is another story. Steve Holzner has put his entry into the field with Ajax Bible. This is one of the better titles out there, and there's something to appeal to all levels of developers.
Contents:
Part 1 - Fundamental Ajax: Essential Ajax; Know Your JavaScript; Creating Ajax Applications; Serious Ajax Programming
Part 2 - Ajax In Depth: Introducing Ajax Frameworks; ... Read More
Rating: - Another winner - a fine AJAX ontribution
If you're alive and into computer books, you've got to know the name Holzner. The fellow has got a talent for putting together a book that is always (at least the ones I read) at the top of the heap in terms of readability and content. He does it again in this book. This book is an enhanced version of his Ajax For Dummies, a very good and lower level book. There's more in it.
AJAX for the un-initiated (are they out there ?) is the name given to the technique of using a bunch of already true and tried components, ... Read More
- I expected more
- A Bible in Size Only
- Solid beginning to end coverage of Ajax...
