Ajax can bring many advantages to an existing web application without forcingyou to redo the whole thing. This book explains how you can add Ajax toenhance rath... » 

Ajax can bring many advantages to an existing web application without forcingyou to redo the whole thing. This book explains how you can add Ajax toenhance rather than replace the way your application works. For instance ifyou have a traditional web application based on submitting a form to update atable you can enhance it by adding the capability to update the table withchanges to the form fields without actually having to submit the form. Thatsjust one example. Adding Ajax is for those of you more interested in extendingexisting applications than in creating Rich Internet Applications RIA. Youalready know the businessside of applicationsweb forms serverside drivenpages and static contentand now you want to make your web pages liveliermore fun and much more interactive. This book Provides an overview of Ajaxtechnologies and the importance of developing a strategy for changing yoursite before you sit down to code Explains the heart and soul of Ajax how towork with the XMLHttpRequest object Introduces and demonstrates severalimportant Ajax libraries including Prototype script.aculo.us rico Mochikit Explores the interactive element that is Ajax including how to work withevents and event handlers that work across browsers Introduces the concept ofweb page as space and covers three popular approaches to managing web space Explains how to make data updates including adding new data deleting andmaking updates all from within a single page Describes the effects Ajax hason the Webbreaking the back button losing browser history dynamic effectsthat disappear when the page is refreshed and more Covers advanced CSSeffects including drag and drop scroll bars pagination and the use of SVGand the Canvas object Explores mashupsAjaxs ability to combine data fromdifferent web services in any number of ways directly in our web pages Youdont need to start over to use Ajax. You can simply add to what you alreadyhave. This book explains how. «