Ajax for Web Application Developers

Chapter 6. Creating the Engine In Chapter 2, "The Request," we created a few functions to create an XHR, and handle receiving and displaying a response. This solution works fine in many cases, especially for simple Ajax-based web p...

Creating a Custom Ajax Wrapper The Ajax wrapper that we will be creating is simply called Ajax, and is an object that follows the Singleton pattern, which we will cover in detail in Chapter 14, "Singleton Pattern." This object will handl...

Creating an Ajax Updater In order to keep our Ajax object in the background and add a layer of abstraction to our engine, we will create an object called AjaxUpdater. This object is another that follows the Singleton pattern to keep it accessible ...