Bulletproof Ajax (Voices That Matter)

click here for more details, find new or used items	Jeremy Keith Our price £14.99 (£24.99) New from £12.10 Used from £11.52 Pages: 216 (Paperback) ISBN: 0321472667 Pub: New Riders Pub date: 2007-02-19 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2807

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Supurb book - author should stand up and take a bow (2/2 people found this helpful)

This book won't teach you about "advanced AJAX". This is primarily because there is no such thing as advanced Ajax. The concept is pretty straightforward.

What however isn't obvious, is the pros and cons of implementing Ajax itself. This is where this book stands out.

The non-intrusive approach to Ajax championed by this book is exactly the solution I needed to all my Ajax worries. I read this in conjunction with more detailled Ajax books, and this book really came into its own once I had appreciated more fully what Ajax was all about using the other books "Ajax and PHP" was one notable titlte; loads of worked examples and a sea anemone on the front cover.

It took a second read of this book to fully appreciate the author's intentions, abd I am so glad that I did. My sites are much better for it.

Unmissable.

Excellent, rapid introduction, for those who already know HTML and a little JS (3/3 people found this helpful)

I was a bit skeptical when I saw how slender this book was, and when the author started with a brush-up on JavaScript syntax, I began wondering whether there would be any 'meat'.

Pretty soon, though, I was well into the practicalities of Ajax, described clearly and succinctly, with even the warts (and all) mentioned in enough detail that I now feel confident enough to tackle multi-platform Ajax jobs. The various popular Ajax frameworks are discussed, and the most important pitfalls are negotiated on the basis of offering a wide range of solutions. At no time do you feel 'locked-in' to a particular framework or paradigm.

If you're a complete newcomer to web design, this book might be a bit of a challenge, but if you've been a bit around the houses, and know some HTML and Javascript already, this is THE Ajax book to buy. Why pay more for a few extra hundred 'baby's first website' pages you'll never read anyway?

Fantastic introduction to AJAX (6/6 people found this helpful)

This is going to be a quick review, but this is a great book.

I bought Jeremy Keith's first book DOM Scripting and couldn't wait to read this, the authors second book.

I am a designer but have a have medium ranged skills in PHP and Javascript and found this book slightly below my level, but the code examples were explained enough for the smart newbie.

It certainly wont take your skills up to an advanced level of AJAX but its a fantastic introduction and will not only teach how to build an intermediate AJAX system, but the why and why not.

I can't recommend this book enough for anyone looking to get a foothold of AJAX which is now popping up everywhere on the web.

Really looking forward to the authors third book, which i really hope is in production.

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