Professional Ajax

by Nicholas C. Zakas, Jeremy McPeak, Joe Fawcett

Written for experienced web developers, Professional Ajax shows how to combine tried-and-true CSS, XML, and JavaScript technologies into Ajax. This provides web developers with the ability to create more sophisticated and responsive user interfaces and break free from the "click-and-wait" standard that has dominated the web since its introduction. Professional Ajax discusses the range of request brokers (including the hidden frame technique, iframes, and XMLHttp) and explains when one should be used over another. You will also learn different Ajax techniques and patterns for executing client-server communication on your web site and in web applications. By the end of the book, you will have gained the practical knowledge necessary to implement your own Ajax solutions. In addition to a full chapter case study showing how to combine the book's Ajax techniques into an AjaxMail application, Professional Ajax uses many other examples to build hands-on Ajax experience. Some of the other examples

Genres: Programming, Web, Technical, Nonfiction, Technology, Computers, Reference

432 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2006

About the author

Chinese: 尼古拉斯

Nicholas C. Zakas is a front-end consultant, author, and speaker. He worked at Yahoo! for almost five years, where he was front-end tech lead for the Yahoo! homepage and a contributor to the YUI library. He is the author of Maintainable JavaScript (O’Reilly, 2012), Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (Wrox, 2012), High Performance JavaScript
(O’Reilly, 2010), and Professional Ajax (Wrox, 2007). Nicholas is a strong advocate for development best practices including progressive enhancement, accessibility, performance, scalability, and maintainability.

Reviews

[Tim Chase · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ch 1-5 (AJAX): pretty decent, but a wee bit dated
Ch 6 (XML/XSLT/XPath): weird placement and material in an AJAX book
Ch 7 (RSS/Atom): weird placement, but decent
Ch 8 (JSON): not bad, but could have used more
Ch 9 (Comet): weak
Ch 10 (Maps): one of the highlights of the book
Ch 11 (Debugging): a bit dated, but decent
Ch 12-16: feels a bit like random filler

LOTS of bad server-side code with SQL injections all over the place. They're mentioned in an off-hand paragraph towards the beginning of the book, but the abundance in the text makes them hard to catch if you don't know what you're doing. Not a text I'd let AJAX-beginners learn from.

[Miroslav · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the first "paper" book I read about Ajax.

What I think?
Well, it is not bad as a first read for a beginner, but there are some better books.

What I don't like about it is that it doesn't put a good programming style, which may confuse and build bad programming practices on the readers.

[Sutanto · Rating 5 out of 5]

Make web applications like desktop application (wow that is cool application)

Aku ada softcopy-nya, kalo pada mo baca ntar aku kasih dech atau ntar aku kasih linknya buat download sendiri...(ho....ho...)

[Sancaka · Rating 2 out of 5]

have to reread this stuff...

[Pruff]

good

[Chandra Reddy]

hdfhff

[amir]

good

[Shashi Shanker · Rating 5 out of 5]

happy