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What Is Ajax?From 2001 to 2005, the World Wide Web went through a tremendous growth spurt in terms of thetechnologies and methodologies being used to

Figure 1-4A9Amazon.com is world famous for being an online marketplace for just about anything, but when itreleased a search engine, it did so with li

Figure 1-5Yahoo! NewsAlso introduced in 2005 was a new design for the Yahoo! News site (news.yahoo.com). The new designfeatures an interesting enhance

Figure 1-6Bitflux BlogAnother great example of using Ajax only as an enhancement is Bitflux Blog (blog.bitflux.ch), whichfeatures a technology called

Figure 1-7Confusion and ControversyDespite the popularity of the term Ajax, it has been met with its fair share of dissenters and controversy.Some bel

Others have spent a significant amount of time dissecting Garrett’s article and disproving severalassumptions that he makes. For instance, the article

SummaryThis chapter introduced you to the basic premise of Ajax. Short for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML, theterm Ajax was coined by Jesse James Garre

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Ajax Is BornIn February 2005, Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path, LLC published an online article entitled, “Ajax:A New Approach to Web Applications

tasks such as data validation, it became possible to transfer this small bit of processing to the browser.This ability was very important at a time wh

DHTML never made it to a standards body, although Microsoft’s influence would be felt strongly withthe introduction of the Document Object Model (DOM)

The Real AjaxDespite the frequently asked questions attached to the end of Garrett’s essay, some confusion still existsas to what Ajax really is. Put

Ajax PrinciplesAs a new web application model, Ajax is still in its infancy. However, several web developers have takenthis new development as a chall

❑ DOM: Dynamic updating of a loaded page❑ XML: Data exchange format❑ XSLT: Transforms XML into XHTML (styled by CSS)❑ XMLHttp: Primary communication b

Figure 1-2GmailGmail, Google’s free e-mail service, has been raved about as a marvel of client-server interaction in theage of Ajax. When you first lo

Figure 1-3 Google MapsAnother part of Google’s dominant Ajax web applications is Google Maps (maps.google.com).Designed to compete with well-establish