| Ajax can bring many advantages to an existing web
application without forcing you to redo the whole thing.
This book explains how you can add Ajax to enhance, rather
than replace, the way your application works. For instance,
if you have a traditional web application based on
submitting a form to update a table, you can enhance it by
adding the capability to update the table with changes to
the form fields, without actually having to submit the form.
That's just one example.
Adding Ajax is for those of you more interested in extending
existing applications than in creating Rich Internet
Applications (RIA). You already know the "business-side" of
applications-web forms, server-side driven pages, and static
content-and now you want to make your web pages livelier,
more fun, and much more interactive. This book:
Provides an overview of Ajax technologies, and the
importance of developing a strategy for changing your site
before you sit down to code
Explains the heart and soul of Ajax: how to work with the
XMLHttpRequest object
Introduces and demonstrates several important Ajax
libraries, including Prototype, script.aculo.us, rico,
Mochikit
Explores the interactive element that is Ajax, including how
to work with events and event handlers that work across
browsers
Introduces the concept of web page as space, and covers
three popular approaches to managing web space
Explains how to make data updates, including adding new
data, deleting, and making updates, all from within a single
page
Describes the effects Ajax has on the Web-breaking the back
button, losing browser history, dynamic effects that
disappear when the page is refreshed, and more
Covers advanced CSS effects, including drag and drop "scroll
bars", pagination, and the use of SVG and the Canvas object
Explores mashups-Ajax's ability to combine data from
different web services in any number of ways, directly in
our web pages
You don't need to start over to use Ajax. You can simply add
to what you already have. This book explains how.
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Biting the hand that feeds IT 
Published by: O'REILLY & ASSOCIATES