Ajax and the basics of Ajax tutorial

Ajax| Basic Tutorials

The Ajax Basics Tutorial is the first international book on Ajax . its Chinese version is also the first domestic AJAX books, will be launched by the people's post and telecommunications press .

"Ajax Basics Tutorial" Turing programming series

(US) Ryan Asleson Nathaniel T.schutta Kingling

People's posts and Telecommunications publishing house January 2006

Price: 35 RMB

ajax,ajax,ajax! Please make no mistake, I am not talking about the hero of the Greek epic, nor the world famous fantasy Holland Football Club, not a place name in Canada . to ask around the technology chasing the new clan, he will be a face disdain to tell you: even Ajax do not know!? It was a new technology that was born in February 2005 but is now hot . This new technology can greatly improve the user experience of the website .

Yes, Ajax has become one of the most talked-about technical terms in the surging tide of Web2.0 . Google in Gmail, Google Maps, Google suggest, such as a number of shocking applications widely adopted AJAX technology, is already "the Earth people know" the fact that a year ago, also held a wait-and-see attitude of Yahoo, Microsoft and other companies have also turned sharply, The former uses Ajax technology to launch a new e-mail browsing interface and Instant Search (Instant search), the latter is a strong integration of several of its web-related departments, push the new live.com services-a very similar to Google's Ajax-based Web site Amazon's A9 search, Apple's online store, the upstart Web site Flickr, Del.ico.us, the E-commerce Web site Netflix, AOL and Dow Jones are all classic Ajax cases; Google and a group of new ventures have started using Ajax to develop a dazzling generation of software that is familiar with text processing, spreadsheets, scheduling, and so on, all in web browsers and free to use, and Google office rumors are never unfounded; even SAP, Enterprise software giants such as Oracle, Sun and Bea, and heavyweight tool makers such as TIBCO and Iconix, have also been or are preparing to include AJAX support in their products; Technology media such as SYS Con have opened up dedicated AJAX channels; NetEase and other companies have applied Ajax to the actual products, and achieved very good results ...

So, what exactly is Ajax? What's so magical about it? How to apply to your web design and development? People's posts and telecommunications press Turing Company's upcoming "Ajax Basics Course" will give you the answer you want .

The "Ajax Basics Tutorial", translated from Amazon's top bestseller for Computer class, is still on sale in "Foundation of Ajax." The original is the world's first Ajax book, just published a rush, the first printed in a week on the sold, Amazon's highest total ranking has reached 100 . the heat is conceivable . because I am also considering the possibility of using Ajax, and the online information is relatively complex, lack of systematic, so can be in the book production phase to be reviewed the opportunity to review the manuscript, I feel very lucky . The two authors are senior Web developers, one author or the original AJAX framework Taconite . as can be seen from the book, their practical experience is very rich . Preface said the writing purpose: "You need to know we will introduce, do not need you to know we do not mention ." "It seems to me to be very much in line with the developer's taste . and the book does carry this out .

Ajax itself is a combination of existing technologies (Java Script, XML, CSS, Dom, and so on), and the tools, frameworks, and patterns associated with rapid development are endless . Also, Ajax users have a very wide range of Web designers that may be slightly programmable , and may include more experienced enterprise-class Web application developers . therefore, in a small size of the introductory nature of the book How to select, is obviously a primary problem . The book is excellent in this respect, with content that is essentially close to the Ajax core, and does not take the technical foundation of java Script and XML sucks .

The 1th chapter of this book, from the History of Web apps (CGI, applets, Java scripts, servlet and ASP, PHP, DHTML, Flash, XML), paves the way for Ajax to emerge, systematically and comprehensively, Some of the readers have some experience, although the content should be generally understood, but can be so clear geographical context, I am afraid that there are not many people, after all, developers generally young, and often limited.

The 2nd and 3 chapters describe the core concepts of Ajax--xml Http request objects and their use. Although Microsoft has long introduced this technology, but the developer used less, not many people familiar with, and recent surveys show that the current AJAX applications are mainly direct use of this object, so this book two chapters, is very appropriate. The 4th chapter describes the most suitable use of Ajax after the application of the occasion, it is true to the point, I think most readers will be very enjoyable: validation, dynamic load list box, automatic refresh, progress bar, automatic completion, access to Web services and so on.

The 5th to 7th chapter introduced the AJAX Development related tools (document, verification, compression, blur, unit test and debugging), very close to actual combat, fully embodies the author's skill. You know, Java script is currently the most criticized place, that is, the lack of support for development tools, debugging is inconvenient, this book has made a satisfactory answer. At the very least, I can get this part to convince the company that the AJAX program has reached industrial strength. This is useful even if it is not for Ajax development, but for using Java Script. As far as I know, this is a very small part of the relevant Java script books that have been published, and it is just one of the gaps in the knowledge of practitioners.

The 8th chapter is a summary section, which can be used as a transition to advanced reading materials. It involves the model, framework and common traps and other high-level content, and tells the taconite principle of implementation, which is the framework of the designers themselves, is very precious. In addition, there is the Ajax resources, is one of the most complete list of resources I see. Finally, a comprehensive example--dashboard, which is very close to the personalized portal of one of the most fashionable applications of Ajax, has a high practical value.

Appendix A describes the Cross-browser problem of JavaScript, which is in place. Because now Opera, Firefox has been rapidly rising, in the past few years the domestic counterparts in the brain only consider the era of IE is not. With the diversity of platforms (think of 3G mobile phones that may appear this year), Cross-browser and user experience will be the focus of our work. You know, Ajax can be so big, because it's a good way to improve the user experience. Appendix B is an introduction to the framework, the client and server side of the two categories, very comprehensive, and the evaluation is very pertinent, in this framework flying in the era, the reference value is very large.

Ajax is more of a concept, not limited to some kind of platform and technology. In fact, it can be used with Java EE,. NET server-side technologies are used in conjunction with various scripting languages (PHP, Perl, Ruby, and so on). This book is mainly Java java script, the example code is simple and compact, interpretation of the text is very smooth. As Amazon's book review says, "Every web developer should read this book." "By the way, the quality of the translations is quite good and readers can be assured of this."

I think that for Web developers (how many non-web developers this year), Ajax will quickly become the necessary skills from the features of the resume, so start now to greet the Web2.0 tide. The internal news I got from Turing, who had already bought another Chinese copyright for the best Ajax masterpiece "Ajaxin Action", was being translated by the top Ajax team in China, a book that was much more profound and well worth looking forward to. And it is said that Turing also has a plan to publish a complete set of Ajax books. Yes, it's all just beginning.

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