Chapter 3.6. MVC Meets Ajax
Recently, there has been a dramatic shift in web development paradigms. Ajax seems to be taking the world by storm, so now it is no longer a given that a user action is going to create an HTTP Post (or HTTP Get) that will then return a brand new page. Instead, user actions can be picked up by JavaScript on the page and turned into requests that go to the server and get a value back, which is then passed back to the in-page JavaScript by the browser.
Even with more JavaScript view logic, and dynamic updates on the same page, the MVC paradigm still works; you still use views to generate user actions, which are handled by the controller and returned to the browser. You don’t have to generate a new page every time something ...
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