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About the Author
Steve Holzner is the award-winning author of nearly 100 computer books. His books have sold more than 2 million copies and have been translated into 18 languages around the world. He specializes in online topics, especially Ajax, and he has long done commercial Ajax programming.

Introduction
Making Web applications look and feel like desktop applications is what ffl this book is all about — that’s what Ajax does. Although Web develop­ment is getting more and more popular, users still experience the nasty part of having to click a button, wait until a new page loads, click another button, wait until a new page loads, and so on.

That’s where Ajax comes in. With Ajax, you communicate with the server behind the scenes, grab the data you want and display it instantly in a Web page — no page refreshes needed, no flickering in the browser, no waiting. That’s a big deal, because at last it lets Web applications start to look like desktop applications. With today’s faster connections, grabbing data from the server is usually a snap, so Web software can have the same look and feel of software on the user’s desktop.

And that, in a nutshell, is going to be the future of Web programming — now the applications in your browser can look and work just like the applications installed on your computer. No wonder Ajax is the hottest topic to come along in years.

About This Book
This book gives you the whole Ajax story, from soup to nuts. It starts with a tour of how Ajax is used today, taking a look at some cutting-edge applica­tions (as well as some games). Then, because Ajax is based on using JavaScript in the browser, there’s a chapter on how to use JavaScript (if you already know JavaScript, feel free to skip that material).
Then the book plunges into Ajax itself, creating Ajax applications from scratch, from the beginning level to the most advanced. And you’ll see how to put many of the free Ajax frameworks, which do the programming for you, to work. Because Ajax also often involves using XML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and server-side programming (using PHP in this book), there’s also a chapter on each of these topics.

You can also leaf through this book as you like, rather than having to read it from beginning to end. Like other For Dummies books, this one has been designed to let you skip around as much as possible. You don’t have to read the chapters in order if you don’t want to. This is your book, and Ajax is your oyster.

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BUILD YOUR OWN AJAX WEB APPLICATIONS

AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a new approach for developing web applications. It essentially permits users to interact with a Webpage without forcing a slow & tedious reload of the entire page after every action. This means web applications become more responsive, easier to use, and more intuitive. 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!
Throughout the text, the author stresses usability, accessibility, and graceful degradation for older, less-capable web browsers.

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ADDING AJAX

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

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AJAX ON JAVA

This practical guide shows you how to make your Java web applications more responsive and dynamic by incorporating new Ajaxian features, including suggestion lists, drag-and-drop, and more. Java developers can choose between many different ways of incorporating Ajax, from building JavaScript into your applications "by hand" to using the new Google Web Toolkit (GWT).

Ajax on Java starts with an introduction to Ajax, showing you how to write some basic applications that use client-side JavaScript to request information from a Java servlet and display it without doing a full page reload. It also presents several strategies for communicating between the client and the server, including sending raw data, and using XML or JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) for sending more complex collections of data.

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BEGINING XML WITH DOM AND AJAX

Don't waste time on 1,000-page tomes full of syntax; this book is all you need to get ahead in XML development. Renowned web developer Sas Jacobs presents an essential guide to XML. Beginning XML with DOM and Ajax is practical and comprehensive. It includes everything you need to know to get up to speed with XML development quickly and painlessly.

Jacobs begins by presenting an overview of XML–it's syntax, rules, vocabularies, and the hows and whys of validity. She also covers the current state of XML support in today's web browsers. Next, Jacobs covers all of the basic essential uses of XML. You'll learn how to display XML data using CSS, and transform XML data using XSLT. You'll even learn about dynamic XML scripting using the XML DOM.

The last part of the book covers advanced server-side XML uses in real-world applications, including displaying XML data in Flash, and XML-driven PHP and ASP.NET applications. And last but not least, Jacobs provides a perfect introduction to Ajax development.

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