The Bottom Line
Pros
- Clearly shows where it is appropriate and also not appropriate to use Ajax
- Demonstrates the use of Ajax with useful example
- Covers problems with using Ajax and how to fix them
- Shows how to modify code so that it works properly with web readers
- Recommends semantic web design
Cons
- Doesn't mention Opera
Description
- First Edition: Published June 2006
- 297 page paperback
- Published by Sitepoint
- ISBN 0-9758419-4-7
- Create Rich, Interactive Web Sites
- Author Matthew Eernisse
Guide Review - Build Your Own Ajax Web Applications
What! Not another Ajax book. With Ajax being flavour of the year with web development everyone seems to be writing Ajax books these days and most of them just rehash the same things over and over.
Not this book though. The unfortunate thing with this book is that it will most likely get lost in amongst the crowd of Ajax books on the shelf in the bookstore when it really deserves a shelf all to itself.
This book takes an entirely different approach to all of the other Ajax books by looking first at reasons why you might want to use Ajax to do something that is actually useful and then demonstrating how you can use Ajax to perform useful tasks. The book also covers the problems that arise when you start using Ajax in your web pages and looks at some alternative ways that you can fix it.