Bulletproof Ajax

This stepbystep guide reveals the best practices for enhancing Web sites withAjax. It uses progressive enhancement techniques to ensure graceful degradationwhic... » 

This stepbystep guide reveals the best practices for enhancing Web sites withAjax. It uses progressive enhancement techniques to ensure graceful degradationwhich makes sites usable in all browsers. It shows readers how to write theirown Ajax scripts instead of relying on thirdparty libraries. Web sitedesigners love the idea of Ajax of creating Web pages in which informationcan be updated without refreshing the entire page. But for those who arenthardcore programmers enhancing pages using Ajax can be a challenge. Even moreof a challenge is making sure those pages work for all users. In BulletproofAjax author Jeremy Keith demonstrates how developers comfortable with CSS andXHTML can build Ajax functionality without frameworks using the ideas ofgraceful degradation and progressive enhancement to ensure that the pages workfor all users. Throughout this stepbystep guide his emphasis is on bestpractices with an approach to building Ajax pages called Hijax which improvesflexibility and avoids worstcase scenarios. «