Ajax新手入门

Making Web applications look and feel like desktop applications is whatthis book is all about — that’s what Ajax does. Although Web developmentis getting more and more popular, users still experience the nasty partof having to click a button, wait until a new page loads, click another button,wait until a new page loads, and so on.That’s where Ajax comes in. With Ajax, you communicate with the serverbehind the scenes, grab the data you want and display it instantly in a Webpage — no page refreshes needed, no flickering in the browser, no waiting.That’s a big deal, because at last it lets Web applications start to look likedesktop applications. With today’s faster connections, grabbing data fromthe server is usually a snap, so Web software can have the same look and feelof software on the user’s desktop.And that, in a nutshell, is going to be the future of Web programming — nowthe applications in your browser can look and work just like the applicationsinstalled on your computer. No wonder Ajax is the hottest topic to comealong in years. in a Webpage — no page refreshes needed, no flickering in the browser, no waiting.That’s a big deal, because at last it lets Web applications start to look likedesktop applications. With today’s faster connections, grabbing data fromthe server is usually a snap, so Web software can have the same look and feelof software on the user’s desktop.And that, in a nutshell, is going to be the future of Web programming — nowthe applications in your browser can look and work just like the applicationsinstalled on your computer. No wonder Ajax is the hottest topic to comealong in years.