book or article on AJAX

[HarryA]

Hello all, what would be a good book or
article to learn AJAX with HTML/CSS/javascript
on the client side and Perl on the server side?
I am NOT interested in XML, PHP, CGI::
AJAX or other 'tools' that unburden the
user from javascript, etc.
thanks in advance.

 

[Peter Michaux]

Hello all, what would be a good book or
article to learn AJAX with HTML/CSS/javascript
on the client side and Perl on the server side?
I am NOT interested in XML, PHP, CGI::
AJAX or other 'tools' that unburden the
user from javascript, etc.
thanks in advance.

<URL: http://jibbering.com/faq/#FAQ3_1> Fifth edition.

The chapter on Scripting HTTP is good to read to get the basic ideas.
There are problems with Flanagan's discussion. Particularly the
omission of the third argument to XMLHttpRequest.open() and no measures
taken to accommodate Internet Explorer memory leaks with circular
references. More minor omissions include lack of discussion of older
browsers and their various stunted implementations of XMLHttpRequest
objects.

I've flipped through a bunch of books on Ajax from the top publishers
at the bookstore. None have "memory leak" in the index. Most of these
books show how to use a particular Ajax library instead of showing how
to write one. Flanagan's book is easy to read and shows how to write
one even if there are omissions.

Peter

 

[Curtis.DanielN]

Head Rush AJAX is a good book for beginners...it gives in depth
examples that explain the request object w/o going into too much DOM
scripting or other details that can be touched on in other places. One
word of caution is that the format of the book is a bit campy at times
and does not suit all learning styles. I found it to be easy to finish
in comparison to other books I bought but it does not go into some
advanced topics that you may run into later. No matter what book is
chosen you do not have to focus on the server side code too much b/c
that will depend on what you use for a particular project. In simplest
terms all you have to do is make sure that your server side code sends
data back in a format that javascript can be used to parse(XML, plain
text, json...).

 

[VK]

Hello all, what would be a good book or
article to learn AJAX with HTML/CSS/javascript
on the client side and Perl on the server side?

AFAICT "Ajax in Action" gets good references as a startup reading:
<http://www.amazon.com/Ajax-Action-Dave-Crane/dp/1932394613>