Pragmatics Ajax. Getland J., Galbright B., Almar D.

Is the choice of the simple deployment of Web page and the interactive properties of the desktop application necessary? AJAX technology completely changes the idea of ​​Web applications.

The book “Pragmatics Ajax” describes a new approach to the perception and development of Web applications. Open standards (HTML/XHTML, CSS and JavaScript) will help you create dynamic Web applications. Moreover, you don’t even have to think about choosing a programming environment and dealing with deployment problems.

This book does not describe any one programming language, library, browser or architecture. She explores the fundamental technologies and platforms AJAX and tries to honestly and impartially look at the positive and negative aspects of the support of Ajax support in Java, Ruby on Rails,.NET and PHP using script.aculo.us, prototype, Dojo, Sajax/ Najax and ASP.NET.

Programmers, designers and managers will find information about a new approach to design and how to integrate it with existing platforms and application development strategies.

You will learn :

• that the diverse landscape ajax/web 2.0 is not limited to one platform;
• how Ajax works in separate environment;
• how to integrate JavaScript with server platforms ;
• How to use AJAX techniques in existing applications;
• about the new capabilities and platforms that are currently actively developing.