“Ajax: Creating Web Pages with Asynchronous JavaScript and XML”, written by Edmond Woychowsky, is another free ebook you can download in pdf format from Bruce Perens’ Open Source Series. It is an easy, example-based guide to Ajax for every web developer.
Book Description
The purpose of the book is simply to show you the fundamentals of developing Ajax applications. This book assumes a basic understanding of web-development techniques beyond the WYSIWYG drag and drop that is the current standard. It isn’t necessary to have hand-coded HTML; it is only necessary to know that HTML exists. This book will hopefully fill in the gaps so that the basics of what goes where can be performed.
Table of Contents
- Types of Web Pages
- Introducing Ajax
- HTML/XHTML
- JavaScript
- Ajax Using HTML and JavaScript
- XML
- XMLHttpRequest
- Ajax Using XSLT
- Better Living Through Code Reuse
- Traveling with Ruby on Rails
- Traveling Farther with Ruby
- The Essential Cross-Browser HTML DOM
- Other Items of Interest
