Head Rush Ajax

Chapter 1. Web Applications for a New Generation: Using Ajax Put a new shine on your web applications. Tired of clunky web interfaces and waiting around for a page to reload? Well, it's about time to give your web apps that pine-scented...

Chapter 2. Making Ajax Requests: Speaking the Language I really thought we were getting somewhere, but then she said all she wanted to do was talk! It's time to learn how to speak asynchronously. If you're planning on writing the next kil...

Chapter 3. She Blinded Me with Asynchronous Waiting room? I'm sorry, we don't have one of those. This is the Web, not a doctor's office, and nobody wants to sit around reading a six-month old magazine while a server does its thing. You've...

Chapter 4. The Document Object Model:Web Page Forestry I've really taken control of my DOM trees. A little pruning here, a bit of snipping there, and my web pages are more dynamic than ever. Wanted: easy-to-update web pages. It's time to...

Chapter 5. POST Requests: Saying More with POST This is what you've been waiting for. You asked for it, and now you're going to get it: we're finally going to ditch send(null), and learn how to send more data to a server. It will take a l...

Chapter 6. More Than Words Can Say But I'm so much more than just a pretty face... I really do have something to say. Ever feel like nobody is listening to you? Sometimes plain old English just doesn't cut it when you're trying to communi...

Chapter 7. A Fight to the Finish It's time to go back to elementary school. Remember the days when differences were resolved with harsh words, flying fists, and poor kung fu imitations? Remember when nothing thrilled your soul like hearin...