Ajax Hacks: Tips & Tools for Creating Responsive Web Sites

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Want to build next-generation web applications today? This book can show
you how. A smart collection of 80 insider tips and tricks, Ajax Hacks
covers the finer points of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, or Ajax as it's
known. Learn leading-edge web development tasks like how to display
Weather.com data, scrape stock quotes, fetch postal codes and much, much
more.  

Ajax, the popular term for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is one of the
most important combinations of technologies for web developers to know these
days. With its rich grouping of technologies, Ajax developers can create
interactive web applications with XML-based web services, using JavaScript in
the browser to process the web server response.
Taking complete advantage of Ajax, however, requires something more
than your typical "how-to" book. What it calls for is Ajax Hacks from
O'Reilly. This valuable guide provides direct, hands-on solutions that take
the mystery out of Ajax's many capabilities. Each hack represents a clever way
to accomplish a specific task, saving you countless hours of searching for the
right answer.
A smart collection of 80 insider tips and tricks, Ajax Hacks
covers all of the technology's finer points. Want to build next-generation web
applications today? This book can show you how. Among the multitude of topics
addressed, it shows you techniques for:

Using Ajax with Google Maps and Yahoo Maps
Displaying Weather.com data
Scraping stock quotes
Fetching postal codes
Building web forms with auto-complete functionality
Ajax Hacks also features a number of advanced hacks for
accelerated web developers. Discover 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 even
addresses best practices for testing Ajax applications and improving
maintenance, performance, and reliability for JavaScript code.
The latest in O"Reilly's celebrated Hacks series, Ajax Hacks
smartly complements other O'Reilly titles such as Head Rush Ajax and
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide.