Many programmers, myself included, have long seen JavaScript as a way to change the appearance of a page of HTML dynamically or to perform relatively minor tasks, such as checking the validity of a ...

The foundation that makes AJAX possible is the communication layer with the server. The most complete option for performing this communication is the JavaScript XMLHttpRequest object. If ...

Interactive Web pages, long dreamed of by designers, are finally here—Web interfaces that respond instantly to user commands, with minimal page redraw. All this and more is possible via Ajax ...

That’s a lot of libraries. The application’s JavaScript is shown in Example 5-6 and consists of a mix of Prototype event handling through the Event object and event bind function, Rico’s accordion, ...

AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is now widely known as a technique used in client-side interactions. However, AJAX requires special coding for asynchronous requests and for server-side ...

The danger to IT organizations is that Ajax technology is being perceived as a direct pipeline into corporate data. That's pushing developers to inadvertently expose more data and server logic than ...