[...]... columnist and writer for InformIT and numerous web design magazines He is also the founder of Studio Sedition, a web application development firm, and is the cofounder of 33Inc, the company responsible for DashboardHQ He maintains a blog called Designing with Code, which focuses on web application development from a design perspective and often features useful code snippets to help enhance web applications.You... user-based application, such as a community-based web application, for example The samples that are used in each chapter and ultimately for the final application can be found at samspublishing.com.Within each chapter, the samples that correlate to the final application will be denoted with listing headings that identify each code snippet Not only will you learn how to create and use your own reusable Ajax. .. many developers who get so excited by the hype surrounding it that they simply throw the code into their applications without measuring the benefits of using it beforehand Not every web application has a need for Ajax, but there are many parts of an application that can be enhanced by utilizing its benefits In this book, we will cover usability patterns that will handle feedback, server-side form validation... continually persist as a desktop application does, but Ajax- enabled web applications are, well, on the Web accessible by anyone with a connection, without any downloads or shipping costs for delivering large fancy boxes.The Web is the new desktop, and we are on the verge of a major software shift that we can actively participate in as the pioneers of on-demand information Ajax can be a valuable connection... book Email: webdev@samspublishing.com Mail: Mark Taber Associate Publisher Sams Publishing 800 East 96th Street Indianapolis, IN 46240 USA Reader Services Visit our website and register this book at www.samspublishing.com/register for convenient access to any updates, downloads, or errata that might be available for this book Introduction Certainly,who wants tomust have attracted you to this Ajax into... practical examples that can be reused in any other Ajax- enabled web application. These examples will be completely object oriented for the scalability and flexibility that is required in enterprise-level applications.This book consists of chapters that will guide you through individual Ajax examples, such as how to create a reusable Ajax engine, how to create Ajax- enabled components, and my personal favorite,... accepted, XML Each format can be useful depending on the results you are trying to achieve However, deciding on a single format for your application can be useful as a convention for future management, especially if you are building a large-scale application For example, if you decide to use XML as the response in one situation, it would be much easier to continue to count on that format as the response... Ajax- enabled web applications, such as security and some best practices An Introduction to the Book Samples As I mentioned earlier, the goal of this book is to teach you how to create reusable Ajax applications with object-oriented JavaScript Instead of creating individual samples with no context, I have decided to create individual samples that are usable on their own and as a part of larger web applications... connect to server-side languages with Ajax Ajax requires supporting technologies such as XML (Extensible Markup Language) and JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) for the data-interchange and JavaScript and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) for the data rendering and display; therefore we will be focusing on these technologies before we dive into the more complex world of Ajax. With the knowledge of front-end... applications as a whole.Therefore, we will learn how to create an Ajax engine, components, and connections to databases as individual chapter samples, but we will also combine these individual pieces into a larger application that will be continually built throughout the book.The final application will consist of all the individual pieces tied together by Ajax to create an internal web mail application that can .