Preface

 

... the challenges are for the designers of these applications: to forget what we think we know about the limitations of the Web, and begin to imagine a wider, richer range of possibilities. It’s going to be fun.

 
 --Jesse James Garrett, Adaptive Path “Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications” (adaptivepath.com/ideas/essays/archives/000385.php)

Introduction

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