Learn how to use Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) to create Web applications that mirror the richness of desktop applications. Using easy-to-follow examples, Ajax: A Beginner’s Guide gets you started working with this cutting-edge collection of technologies in no time. Create XMLHttpRequest objects and use JavaScript, XML, DHTML, CSS, PHP, and more to build next-generation Web applications. You’ll also find out about a variety of free, pre-written Ajax frameworks you can use right away.

The book written by Holzner is designed for easy learning of key skills and concepts in the arena of Ajax. The book guides you on how to learn Ajax to create Web applications that mirror the richness of desktop applications. With many easy-to-follow examples, this Beginner’s Guide gets you started working with the collection of technologies. The book guides you to create XMLHttpRequest objects and use JavaScript, XML, DHTML, CSS, PHP, etc to build next-generation Web applications. There are various free, pre-written Ajax frameworks that you can use right away.

The book is a complete guide to Ajax that enables to create a browsing experience that is no different from using a program on your own computer. However, to understand this book, you should have enough knowledge of HTML to put together a web page. Besides, you need to have access to a browser that can run JavaScript like IE or Firefox.

About the Author
Steven Holzner is an award-winning computer book author and web entrepreneur, with over 100 published books in 18 languages, with over 3 million copies sold. He’s written
extensively on Ajax, and uses it daily on his web sites. He’s also been on the faculty of both Cornell University and MIT.

About the Technical Editor
Jim Keogh introduced PC programming nationally in his Popular Electronics Magazine column in 1982, and was a member of a team who built one of the first Windows
applications by a Wall Street firm, featured by Bill Gates in 1986. He has spent almost two decades developing computer systems for Wall Street firms such as Salomon, Inc. and Bear Stearns, Inc. Keogh is presently on the faculty of New York University, and is the author of J2EE: The Complete Reference and J2ME: The Complete Reference, both published by McGraw-Hill, and more than 55 other titles.

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