Ajax Bible

Ajax Bible

Part I - Fundamental Ajax
Chapter 1 - Essential Ajax
Chapter 2 - Know Your JavaScript
Chapter 3 - Creating Ajax Applications
Chapter 4 - Serious Ajax Programming

Part II - Ajax in Depth
Chapter 5 - Introducing Ajax Frameworks
Chapter 6 - More Advanced Ajax Frameworks
Chapter 7 - Using Server-Side Ajax Frameworks

Part III - Ajax and the DOM, XML, CSS, and Dynamic HTML
Chapter 8 - The DOM and Event Handling
Chapter 9 - XML and Ajax
Chapter 10 - Cascading Style Sheets and Ajax
Chapter 11 - Dynamic HTML and Ajax

Part IV - Advanced Ajax
Chapter 12 - Introducing Ajax and PHP
Chapter 13 - PHP-Functions and HTML Controls
Chapter 14 - Handling User Input in PHP
Chapter 15 - Ajax and Security
Chapter 16 - Filters, MVC, and Ajax
Index
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Sidebars

Web applications are becoming more and more popular these days, but there’s still that problem with Submit buttons: when you click one, the whole page flickers and refreshes, and you have to wait until the page downloads.

That’s exactly where Ajax comes in. With Ajax, you can communicate with the browser behind the scenes, get the data you need, and display it in a Web page. There’s no page refresh, no waiting required, no flickering in the browser.

That’s cool, because it means your Web applications start to look and feel like desktop applications. As your users’ connections to the Internet get faster and faster, soon there will be just about no way to tell a Web application apart from a desktop application.

Ajax is the future of Web programming. With Ajax, applications in a Web browser can work just like