More AJAX Stuff
- Posted by Shaun on November 23rd, 2005 filed in Books
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I broke down and ordered a copy of “AJAX in Action“. I took a look at the copy at Borders a couple weeks ago and liked what I saw. It has been a while since I bought and read a technical book.
I wrote up some code for Sue to use at work. It is in essence AJAX, but in reality there is no XML involved at all. Plain text, but it works. She’ll use it to automatically populate a select list with values based on the value selected in a different list. This is one place where AJAX comes in handy.
Now, I’m off and reading about some AJAX toolkits and AJAX based technologies. I’m trying to find a way to use them. It is definitely a change of gears for somebody used to normal web programming. Here are some I’ve been looking at tonight.
- Behavior – An interesting approach to adding JavaScript event handlers to elements.
- Rico – Toolkit for making “Rich Internet Applications”
- Prototype JavaScript Framework –
- script.aculo.us – Rich visual affects