Ajax for Web Application Developers

Chapter 3. The Response In Chapter 2, "The Request," we started to discuss the response when we covered the ready state and status codes of the XHR. This chapter will go beyond this state of the request and focus on two specific da...

XML XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a popular choice for XHRs, simply because it is the standard intermediate language that all programming languages are able to share. It is also supported both on the server side and client side, which makes ...

JSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a data-interchange format that is becoming more widely accepted as a viable format for Ajax applications. It is essentially an associative array or a hash table, depending on the programming language wi...