Summary

In this chapter, we had a quick overview of AJAX and the technologies that make it tick. We looked at some of the horrible coding contortions that developers had to endure back in the bad old days to create something resembling an interactive UI [25], and we saw how AJAX offers a huge improvement on those approaches. With a decent command of the building blocks of AJAX -- XML, the DOM, CSS, XMLHttpRequest, and JavaScript, which ties them all together -- you have everything you need to start building dynamic and accessible [26] AJAX sites.

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Chapter 2. Basic XMLHttpRequest

XMLHttpRequest is at the heart of AJAX. It gives scripts within the browser the ability to make their own requests and get content from the server. In chapter 2 you will build a simple AJAX library and application to understand how XMLHttpRequest works.

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This Article Excerpted from: “Build Your Own Ajax Web Applications” published by Melbourne-based SitePoint.

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Article Series

This article is part 1 of a 3 part series. Other articles in this series are shown below:

Build Your Own AJAX Web Applications Part 1/3
Build Your Own AJAX Web Applications Part 2/3
Build Your Own AJAX Web Applications Part 3/3

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Comment #1 (Posted by Patrick Remy-Maillet)
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Interesting approach to the deployment of interactive web applications. Well presented.

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