Title: Professional Ajax
Description: 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 include:    web site widgets for a news ticker, weather information, web search, and site search  preloading pages in online articles  incremental form validation  using Google Web APIs in Ajax  creating an autosuggest text box    Professional Ajax readers should be familiar with CSS, XML, JavaScript, and HTML so you can jump right in with the book and begin learning Ajax patterns, XPath and XSLT support in browsers, syndication, web services, JSON, and the Ajax Frameworks, JPSpan, DWR, and Ajax.NET.
Subjects: World Wide Web, JavaScript (Computer program language), Asynchronous transfer mode, Web sites, Ajax (Web site development technology), Design, Computer programs, Authoring programs, Computer Technology, Nonfiction, Web, Sites Web, JavaScript (Langage de programmation), Ajax, Systèmes auteur, Ajax (Technologie de développement de sites Web), Mode de transfert asynchrone, Websites, Programmatuurtechniek, Web sites, design