16. Ajax-Enabled Rich Internet Applications with XML and JSON
... 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
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.
—Henri-Frederic Amiel
It is characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and then to demand whole or categorical answers as it were.
—Avrum Stroll
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—William Shakespeare
Objectives
In this chapter you will:
• Learn what Ajax is and why it’s important for building Rich Internet Applications.
• Use asynchronous requests to give ...
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