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Book:   Adding Ajax
Subject:   "Only add water"
Date:   2008-04-21 10:26:16
From:   joshSVUG
Rating:  StarStarStarStarStar

The key to this book is its title: "Adding Ajax". The emphasis is on the Adding.
The book clearly states its purpose of adding life to existing applications (without breaking them or hindering Accessibility).


The discussion of "brewing" your own Ajax library or reusing existing ones (Dojo, YUI...) was useful, especially as Ms. Powers points out pros and cons for each.


I found a few of the examples and ideas immediately useful and added a few to the internal applications I own at work. The "Dynamic Data" chapter (6) was intriguing.


Thanks Ms. Powers!

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"Any web programmer's collection should have Adding Ajax..."
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