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Ajax: The Complete Reference

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This book is intended for a computer science class. It's very, very dry, and its really not for everyone. The information doesn't ramp up at all, straight to advanced topics. With that said, it covers some great information, demos debugging throughout, and the author clearly demonstrates his strong knowledge of AJAX. The topics covered are worthy of a read. It's not for beginners to AJAX and/or computer programming. This should be the second book you purchase on the topic, after establishing a basic knowledge of AJAX. Worth a note, the examples use PHP, so if that's not your programming language of choice, then you might want to skip this one.

What I like the most about this book is very detailed explanations on how to attack and solve problems. I also love the way how this book has a lot of examples that are compatible to most of the modern browsers. All examples are already presented on the site that goes along with the book.

The author also give tips on making design decision when making either small or large scale websites. It is very well written with full of examples that come with detailed explanations.

Key features of this outstanding book:

* Powell has deep and mature knowledge of his subject, which he shares generously.
* The text has been well edited -- errata are few and the writing is clear.
* Powell's Javascript is straightforward and cross-browser friendly. Powell is clearly familiar with Crockford-style object-oriented Javascript (a style I happen to like), but he doesn't build his code around it since this could make the code less accessible to many readers.

This is not a quick overview: it's long on detail. This is not a cookbook: ends of chapters assume that beginnings of chapters have been read. But if you're serious about mastering Ajax-type transport techniques, it's invaluable.

I've been a professional Web developer for many years. I've yet to see a better resource for client-side coding.

I've bought this book a year ago, looking for materials to help me with the implementation of AJAX on many of my projects and this is the one it really suit me; the perfect book! Very practical, easy reading and good and helpful examples. One last point: The author reads the comments, questions.. and he answers all of them.

I strongly recommend it this material as it will be very helpful, I guarantee it!

I am an experienced software engineer who never done any Javascript/Ajax development until three weeks ago. I had a good idea of what I wanted to accomplish, but did not know exactly how to do it. This book was perfect for me.
The book is well organized, and I was able to find what I needed to do without reading the book cover to cover.
Examples were clear and useful, and I was able to adapt them to my own needs easily.

I was able to complete my project in several weeks, much of it thanks to this reference.

This book is one of the best AJAX books that I have seen. It explains topics that are not covered in some of my other AJAX books such as network problems during data transfers. I liked it and I am using it to develop new web apps.