HarryA wrote:
Hello all, what would be a good book or
article to learn AJAX with HTML/CSS/javascript
on the client side and Perl on the server side?
I am NOT interested in XML, PHP, CGI::
AJAX or other 'tools' that unburden the
user from javascript, etc.
thanks in advance.
<URL: http://jibbering.com/faq/#FAQ3_1Fifth edition.
The chapter on Scripting HTTP is good to read to get the basic ideas.
There are problems with Flanagan's discussion. Particularly the
omission of the third argument to XMLHttpRequest.open() and no measures
taken to accommodate Internet Explorer memory leaks with circular
references. More minor omissions include lack of discussion of older
browsers and their various stunted implementations of XMLHttpRequest
objects.
I've flipped through a bunch of books on Ajax from the top publishers
at the bookstore. None have "memory leak" in the index. Most of these
books show how to use a particular Ajax library instead of showing how
to write one. Flanagan's book is easy to read and shows how to write
one even if there are omissions.
Peter