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Build Your Own AJAX Web Applications

“Create responsive web applications with the power of AJAX!”

• Build a cross-browser XMLHttpRequest wrapper.
• Enhance interactivity with features like edit-in-place.
• Minimize usability problems with dynamic, animated interfaces.
• Ensure the user’s Back button works.
• Build a drag ‘n’ drop AJAX chess game.
• Use JSON, YAML, and XML to communicate with the server.
• Use REST, SOAP, and XML-RPC to create powerful applications.

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Overview

Now you can join the likes of Google Maps, Google Suggest, Backpack, and Flickr by taking advantage of the usability, interactivity, and responsiveness benefits of AJAX!

Build Your Own AJAX Web Applications is a practical, step-by-step guide to bringing next-generation interactivity to your web sites today. This book will help you build responsive, professional, robust AJAX applications that adhere to best practices and enhance the user experience while maintaining your application's accessibility.

What Is AJAX?

AJAX is the technique of making web pages more interactive by using JavaScript to pull updated information from the server and modify the page displayed in the browser on the fly.

The added interactivity and responsiveness can boost your application's usability, making it:

• easier to use
• more fun to use
• more intuitive

What Will I Learn?

Build Your Own AJAX Web Applications uses a step-by-step tutorial format that's so easy to follow, you'll be able to build sophisticated and intuitive AJAX web interfaces in no time!

Read this book, and you'll:

• Get an overview of the basic technologies you'll need to use to build AJAX applications.
• Understand the XMLHttpRequest object, the core of AJAX applications.
• Build a cross-browser XMLHttpRequest wrapper that you can use in all of your AJAX projects.
• Build an AJAX application monitor that works in real time.
• Learn how to use AJAX without breaking older browsers or causing accessibility issues.
• Get your AJAX application working with screen readers.
• Use dynamic animations to improve usability.
• Build edit-in-place functionality.
• Create an AJAX search application that pulls data from Amazon, del.icio.us, and Google.
• Fix the Back button problem.
• Use JSON, YAML, and XML to communicate with the server.
• Build an AJAX drag 'n' drop chess game.

...And a whole lot more!

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Who Should Read This Book?

This book is aimed primarily at web developers who are already familiar with basic client-side web technologies like CSS and JavaScript. But don't be put off if you're willing to do some learning as you go. JavaScript syntax is pretty straightforward, and the book uses plain-vanilla code that's pretty much free of browser-specific workarounds. The book also provides links to resources you can use to learn more about the technologies used in AJAX development.

There’s no need to re-type or re-create any of the examples in the book. As with all our books, you'll receive instant download access to all the example files used, so you can use them immediately in your own web site.

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Of course we’re so confident that you’ll treasure this book for years to come that we’re happy, as always, for you to try it risk-free for 30 days. If you purchase a copy of Build Your Own AJAX Web Applications and you think it fails to be everything you wanted, we would like you to have your money back.

Simply contact us and we will see to it that you receive a prompt and courteous refund of the full purchase price.

What could be fairer than this?

How To Order This Book

‘Build Your Own AJAX Web Applications’ is provided as a downloadable Adobe PDF, so you can begin reading it within minutes of making your purchase.

And of course, it's so easy to carry a whole library of PDFs with you (on a laptop or pen drive) that you'll never need to be caught without a solution to a problem again.

This title is not available in hard copy, printed format.

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