Ajax in Action Book Review
Posted by Chris Young on 11.28.05
I don’t know much about this yet, but it seems to be a growing buzz word in the software development community. I may check this book out:
Slashdot | Ajax in Action
I don’t know much about this yet, but it seems to be a growing buzz word in the software development community. I may check this book out:
Slashdot | Ajax in Action
snackrabbit said,
11.28.05 at 4:00 pm
I’m sure you’ve read more about it, but basically it is using javascript on the client side and utilizing the browser’s asynchronous network code (a la XMLHttpRequest) to perform network I/O while maintaining a responsive UI.
So when you go to Google Maps and drag the map, there is a javascript function responds to the drag that sends an XMLHttpRequest back to Google to get the recalculated data in the background. It can then update just the changed parts of the UI using the browser DOM.
snackrabbit said,
12.05.05 at 6:44 pm
That probably seemed like I was pooh-poohing the idea, but really you can do some neat tricks and it’s probably good to have a book out there in addition to the zillion websites going on about it.
beesucker said,
12.06.05 at 11:29 am
I didn’t see it a pooh-poohing. But It’s not like it hasn’t been possible to do this for years - but I guess AJAX introduces some helpful design patterns as well. So call it AJAX and tell us how to do it and you can really get something going, apparently.