The small excursion into Ajax-Land and reading KathySierra’s blog Creating Passionate Users convinced me of buying Head Rush Ajax. I’m working through the examples of chapter 01, now. ;)
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Oh, sounds interesting. I wonder if they use some of the free libraries (dojotoolkit, mochikit, yahoo or scriptaculous, ...) for ajax coding as well? Would be interesting to read your comments about the book when you’r over 😃
– 2ni 2006-05-08 10:09 UTC
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They use very simple stuff! At the very end, after short intro to Scriptaculous on p. 403 they say:
Now tell me again why I shouldn’t use one of those fancy Ajax toolkits I keep seeing on the Web. Don’t those offer all sorts of extra functionality? **Don’t use what you don’t *understand*** There’s nothing wrong with using an Ajax toolkit, expecially if the toolkit takes care of lots of routine and repetitive tasks. That’s all ajax.js really does: it takes code that you need in very single Ajax application, and it tucks it away in a file that you can use and refer to over and over.
Sounds like good advice to me! They also supply a little text-utils.js for simple DOM manipulations. Perfect for getting started.
But then again, I’m in chapter 02. ;)
– Alex Schroeder 2006-05-08 17:56 UTC