Comments on: “Foundations of Ajax” review http://agylen.com/2005/11/19/foundations-of-ajax-review/ Ugo Cei's Weblog Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:28:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Niall http://agylen.com/2005/11/19/foundations-of-ajax-review/#comment-620 Niall Mon, 21 Nov 2005 18:00:06 +0000 http://agylen.com/2005/11/19/foundations-of-ajax-review/#comment-620 Have you looked at "Ajax in Action"... http://tinyurl.com/7twu3 ...if you have, which did you prefer? Have you looked at “Ajax in Action”…

http://tinyurl.com/7twu3

…if you have, which did you prefer?

]]> By: Roger http://agylen.com/2005/11/19/foundations-of-ajax-review/#comment-612 Roger Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:48:11 +0000 http://agylen.com/2005/11/19/foundations-of-ajax-review/#comment-612 I went to the authors'presentation the other evening at the Twin Cities Java group meeting. Alas, while the presentation content was fine, it was also rather long-winded (90 minutes!), as one of the authors likes to talk. I also wonder whether or not having two authors may be one reason for some of the book's disorganized structure. Certainly personal preference for some of the available tools (e.g. Venkman debugger) appears in the book. Apparently they had started writing the book many months before the term "Ajax" was introduced - at the time they weren't sure what the title of the book would be and were therefore quite happy to be able to title it as they did. The lack of discussion about Ajax frameworks was mostly intentional - the authors were afraid that most of the material on the emerging frameworks would be long out-of-date once their book was published. In hindsight they were right. The authors repeated pointed out that the use of Ajax has raised the bar of user expectations of websites - it is something that web developers are simply going to need to know. I went to the authors’presentation the other evening at the Twin Cities Java group meeting. Alas, while the presentation content was fine, it was also rather long-winded (90 minutes!), as one of the authors likes to talk. I also wonder whether or not having two authors may be one reason for some of the book’s disorganized structure. Certainly personal preference for some of the available tools (e.g. Venkman debugger) appears in the book. Apparently they had started writing the book many months before the term “Ajax” was introduced - at the time they weren’t sure what the title of the book would be and were therefore quite happy to be able to title it as they did. The lack of discussion about Ajax frameworks was mostly intentional - the authors were afraid that most of the material on the emerging frameworks would be long out-of-date once their book was published. In hindsight they were right. The authors repeated pointed out that the use of Ajax has raised the bar of user expectations of websites - it is something that web developers are simply going to need to know.

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