Ajax Hacks : Tips & Tools for Cleaning Up the Web (Hacks)

Those of you familiar with Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) know how useful the technology is for creating interactive web applications with XML-based web services and JavaScript in the browser to process the web server response. Responsive web applications with client-like functionality are the new wave of the Internet. Now, Ajax Hacks offers you 100 new tips and techniques for building faster web apps with rich client interfaces. With practical and clever hacks supplied by several web professionals, this book shows you how to use Ajax to integrate Google Maps and Yahoo Maps, display Weather.com data, scrape stock quotes, fetch postal codes, and build web forms with auto-complete functionality. Advanced hacks teach you how to create huge, maintainable bookmarklets, how to use client-side storage for Ajax applications, and how to call a built-in Java object from JavaScript using Ajax. The book also addresses best practices for testing Ajax applications and improving maintenance,
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